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...Arithmetic aside, the idea of taxing employer-provided health insurance as income has plenty of merit. The current system is regressive, with three-quarters of the tax break going to those who are in the top half of the income-distribution scale. And because these more privileged Americans are not buying health care with after-tax money, they have less incentive to use it carefully...
...another occasion, he covered a roommate’s room in miniature green army men. In spite of his severe and progressing condition, Friedman remained committed to being a normal college student. On top of his regular course load during his freshman year (his illness forced him to scale back slightly on his classes this fall), Friedman worked at a cancer research lab at the Medical School, wrote for the Harvard Science Review, and, on a whim, joined the Hapkido club with Schaaf. “He had this way of keeping things in perspective, putting friendships first, people first...
...that day. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with...
Highlight Reel: 1. The scale of the problem: "Climate change is already seriously affecting hundreds of millions of people today and in the next 20 years those affected will likely more than double - making it the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time ... The number of those severely affected by climate change is more than 10 times greater than, for instance, those injured in traffic accidents each year and more than the global annual number of new malaria cases. Within the next 20 years, 1 in 10 of the world's present population could be directly and seriously affected." (Watch...
After ranking nearly every aspect of my college experience on a scale from one to five, the last question on the College’s Senior Survey asked me what the most memorable part of Harvard has been. The answer that popped into my head was “being here.” Which I wouldn’t have been, were it not for the now-defunct transfer admissions program...