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...plan of Vice President Gore is also somewhat imperfect. At a cost of roughly $500 billion with interest, the program is considerably more reasonable than Bush's tax splurge. Yet the many targeted tax components would add a number of new exceptions to the tax code, and there is a virtue in simplicity, especially when political logrolling is an ever-present threat. In many ways, the credits proposed by Gore represent spending programs under a different name. But the aims of the programs are admirable: we are very glad to see Gore's proposal to expand the EITC, a program...
...booming real estate market, coming on the heels of the abolition of rent control in 1994, has created what politicians and civic leaders term a "crisis in affordable housing." They say the current housing crunch is the number one problem facing the greater Boston community...
...disgracefully low estimate given by the University indicates the number of cases that had been reported to certified representatives of the college, including the Assistant Dean of Co-Education, the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment (SASH) advisers in the houses, and senior tutors...
Harvard students took over University Hall at the end of 1969 only to be evicted by the police at Pusey's command. Students considered Pusey's action an unnecessary use of force. Following the take-over of University Hall, a number of top administrators involved resigned, opening up Harvard for a new administrative overhaul. Pusey officially stated his resignation in February of 1970, giving the Board of Overseers one year to find a replacement...
...volunteers for the jihad (holy war) against the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. Since that war, he has sent his "Arab Afghans" to fight in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kashmir and other conflicts involving Muslims. But he also declared a jihad against the United States, and has been accused of authoring a number of bloody attacks on Americans, most notably the 1998 embassy bombings in east Africa. He's also a prime suspect in the attack on the USS Cole...