LITTLE ROCK — QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We all wish we lived in a world where security procedures at airports weren’t necessary, but that just isn’t the case.”
Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole,
in response to anger over airport body scans and pat-downs Article, this page Buffett urges end to tax cut for rich
WASHINGTON - Billionaire Warren Buffett said that rich people should pay more in taxes and that Bushera tax cuts for top earners should be allowed to expire at the end of December.
“If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further,” Buffett said in an interview with ABC’s This Week With Christiane Amanpour that is scheduled to air next Sunday. “But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes.
We have it better than we’ve ever had it.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to take up President Barack Obama’s plan to extend some of the tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush when the House returns after Thanksgiving. The legislation would retain lower tax rates and increased credits that apply only to the first $250,000 of a married couple’s gross income or $200,000 of a single person’s.
32 in U.S. named
Rhodes scholars
NEW YORK - Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Chicago each had three students awarded Rhodes scholarships, more than any other institutions, as the 32 U.S. recipients of the award were named Sunday.
Other schools with multiple winners were Princeton University and Yale University, according to a statement from the Office of the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Rhodes scholarships fund two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in the U.K. and are awarded based on academic achievement, integrity of character, physical vigor and potential for leadership.
More than 3,200 U.S. citizens have won Rhodes scholarships since the program’s inception. The list of this year’s winners can be found online at rhodesscholar.org.
Manhunt in Utah stretches to day 2
MOAB, Utah - The search for a gunman who critically wounded a Utah park ranger stretched into a second day Sunday as helicopter and boat crews combed a rugged Utah canyon and law officers broadened their pursuit.
The Grand County sheriff’s office said in a statement that more than 160 officers from around the state were searching near the Colorado River southwest of Moab, an area famous for red rock canyons and natural arch formations.
The search near Dead Horse State Park began after Utah State Parks Ranger Brody Young, 34, of Moab, was shot three times Friday night while patrolling the popular Poison Spider Mesa Trail, authorities said.
The search area on Sunday consisted of 15 square miles of rugged terrain that authorities say has likely given the gunman the “upper hand” in avoiding capture, Grand County Sheriff James Nyland said. Three helicopters were included in the search Sunday and authorities were also searching freight cars along an area railroad line.
On Saturday, authorities tracked footprints in a canyon along the Colorado River, recovering a rifle, backpack and a tattered, bloody Tshirt.
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