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...standard deduction for two-earner households and raising the payments to married couples under the Earned Income Tax Credit, a worthy program that supports the working poor. However, the bill would also move many well-off married couples from the 28-percent to the 15-percent tax bracket, regardless of whether they were affected by the marriage penalty or not. As a result, according to the research group Citizens for Tax Justice, the plan would give almost two-thirds of its ten-year, $182 billion largess to families with incomes over $75,000 a year...
According to DJ Schmeejay's research, six things are guaranteed to make people laugh, regardless of race or gender: 1) watching someone get kicked in the genitals, 2) a hapless person falling down stairs, 3-5) two people beating on each other in form or another, and 6) adults dressed as twins...
Wrinn said that regardless of the final plan, Harvard would not be the "principal investor" in any plan. He would not offer any estimate of the maximum portion of the $225 million needed by the insurer that Harvard would spend. And he declined to say where the money would come from, if Harvard does decide to invest...
...none of those people was intellectual history something new," he says. "It appeals primarily to students who want to see how material they have learned in other courses fits together. But it can be useful regardless of their interests...
Clearly this goes beyond picking classes. Regardless of the logic involved, decisions of allegiance (which class to take, which group to support, which opinion to have) are largely intuitive, a strange mix of thinking for ourselves and absorbing other thinking we trust. It's innocuous enough on the level of which Lit and Arts B core you eventually take, but the ways in which reputations are acquired become much more serious with more serious consequences...