It is tempting for people who earn less than $400,000 to think that they got off easy this week under the tax deal to end the fiscal impasse, given that only those with incomes above that level will be in a higher income tax bracket in 2013. But the legislation that both houses of Congress have now approved could increase taxes on people with incomes that are not quite that high as well....
IHT Rendezvous: Seen From China: Fiscal Cliff Shows Democracy's Weakness
Label: WorldHONG KONG — With warnings – and mixed metaphors – about tripping over cans kicked down roads and bungee jumping into abysses, reactions from China to the just-struck United States’ “fiscal cliff” budget deal have been colorful – and critical.Get it together, is the message: American democracy isn’t working if politicians can’t pass national budgets on time. And the mess reduces the attractiveness...
App Smart: Tech Reminders for Keeping Those New Year’s Resolutions
Label: TechnologyNew Year's Resolutions Apps: New Year's resolutions can be hard to keep, but smartphone apps may help you get to the gym, quit smoking and leave work on time.I’ve never really made New Year’s resolutions until this year. I have tried in the past, but with my scatterbrain, by mid-January I’ve forgotten my goals. Streaks — Motivational Calendar, an iOS app, keeps track of the longest...
Hillary Clinton Is Discharged From Hospital After Blood Clot
Label: LifestyleHillary Rodham Clinton, whose globe-trotting tour as secretary of state was abruptly halted last month by a series of health problems, was discharged from a New York hospital on Wednesday evening after several days of treatment for a blood clot in a vein in her head. The news of her release was the first welcome sign in a troubling month that grounded Mrs. Clinton — preventing her from answering...
Hillary Clinton Is Discharged From Hospital After Blood Clot
Label: HealthHillary Rodham Clinton, whose globe-trotting tour as secretary of state was abruptly halted last month by a series of health problems, was discharged from a New York hospital on Wednesday evening after several days of treatment for a blood clot in a vein in her head. The news of her release was the first welcome sign in a troubling month that grounded Mrs. Clinton — preventing her from answering...
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Feeling Dragged Through the Mud, as MTV Comes to West Virginia
Label: BusinessMTVLeisure time on "Buckwild," the new MTV series. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Even though it has yet to be broadcast, a reality TV series set in this corner of Appalachia has created a stir for its portrait of young people prone to fighting, swearing, careening in all-terrain vehicles and wallowing, scantily clad, in the mud. Lexey Swall for The New York TimesAshley Somerville and her boyfriend,...
Used to Hardship, Latvia Accepts Austerity, and Its Pain Eases
Label: WorldRIGA, Latvia — When a credit-fueled economic boom turned to bust in this tiny Baltic nation in 2008, Didzis Krumins, who ran a small architectural company, fired his staff one by one and then shut down the business. He watched in dismay as Latvia’s misery deepened under a harsh austerity drive that scythed wages, jobs and state financing for schools and hospitals. But instead of taking to...
Tech Giants, Learning the Ways of Washington, Brace for More Scrutiny
Label: TechnologyMario Tama/Getty ImagesNadine Wolf demonstrated against online piracy legislation a year ago in New York. The measures were defeated. SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley lobbied hard in Washington in 2012, and despite some friction with regulators, fared fairly well. In 2013, though, government scrutiny is likely to grow. And with this scrutiny will come even greater efforts by the tech industry to press...
Ground Zero Volunteers Face Obstacles to Compensation
Label: LifestyleOn the day the terrorists flew into the World Trade Center, the Wu-Tang Clan canceled its meeting with a record mixer named Richard Oliver, so Mr. Oliver rushed downtown from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment to help out. He said he spent three sleepless days at ground zero, tossing body bags. “Then I went home, ate, crashed, woke up,” he said. He had left his Dr. Martens boots on the landing...
Ground Zero Volunteers Face Obstacles to Compensation
Label: HealthOn the day the terrorists flew into the World Trade Center, the Wu-Tang Clan canceled its meeting with a record mixer named Richard Oliver, so Mr. Oliver rushed downtown from his Hell’s Kitchen apartment to help out. He said he spent three sleepless days at ground zero, tossing body bags. “Then I went home, ate, crashed, woke up,” he said. He had left his Dr. Martens boots on the landing...
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