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Despite their fundamental differences, conservative and liberal groups on campus share a common woe: Many students find partisan political sentiments difficult for the moderate mouth to swallow. A die-hard liberal throughout high school, I often feel as if my reluctance to write-off final clubs as dens of sin or bang a drum in a throbbing mass of protesters precludes me from identifying as a left-winger at Harvard. On the other hand, no part of me wishes to identify with the posh and elitist “ancient principles” of “Western civilization?...
...flying is often the only way to go. Four-fifths of airline-related emissions come from journeys over 1,500 km, for which there's no real alternative (Moscow to Beijing by bus, anyone?). But if flying simply can't be avoided, its environmental impact needn't be a write-off. Consider seating arrangements. "The more people on a plane, the better," says Gehan Talwatte, managing director of London-based aviation consultancy Ascend. Legroom may be compromised during budget or charter flights, but squeezing more seats on board reduces each flier's share of an aircraft's fuel load...
...from cheating husbands and wives to sheriffs to the FBI down in Miami wanting a wiretap," Jeff Battcher, BellSouth's vice president of corporate communications, told TIME. "We know how to do this, and we would never give out any confidential customer information without having a subpoena or a write-off from a judge...
...impeded by the summer savings expectation. Students who work in unpaid public service internships during the summer are more likely than most to enter lower-paying public interest careers after college, and it is precisely the nature of these careers that will make it more difficult for them to write-off a $2,000 loan.The concerns of David H. Garcia ’09, a student on financial aid, reflect the pressure that the summer savings expectation places on students interested in service-oriented summer opportunities. “I wanted to do an unpaid internship in Latin America...
...legislation requires minute scrutiny, and the Ways and Means plan had many minor and major changes in the fine print. The proposal would keep the top annual contribution for an Individual Retirement Account at $2,000, but it would reduce a taxpayer's IRA write-off by $1 for every dollar the person puts into a 401(k) plan, another popular tax-deferred savings plan. The committee felt the Government could recoup revenue by limiting how much money taxpayers put into both plans at the same time...