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“40 years of Quality Service” Mercedes • BMW • Volkswagen • Audi Berman Auto Service 342-2912 * 2025 Franklin Blvd. Eugene, Oregon, 97402 ARE YOUR WEEKENDS MISSING SOMETHING? + + + + Join us on Sundays for worship services featuring Holy Communion. We have traditional services on Sunday mornings and Marty Haugen services on Sunday evenings. Sundays 8:15 and 10:45 am & 6:30 pm Student/Young Adult Bible Study, Sundays, 7:15 pm Central Lutheran Church Corner of 18th <St Potter • 345.0395 _ www.welcometocentral.org All are welcome. Student Jobs at the Computing Center The UO Computing Center is interested in hiring several new student employees to work part time in the User Services and Network Applications group. This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience and work on interesting technology-related projects. Strong candidates will have excellent interpersonal communication skills, a customer service orientation, and extensive knowledge in (preferably) several of the following areas: • programming in C/C++ using gcc/g++ and standard Gnu programming tools • knowledge of PCs running Windows XP/Windows 2000, and Macs running OS X •Unix/Linux, including experience with Darkwing or Gladstone •the World Wide Web, including cgi-bin programming in Perl • multimedia design and creation, including photography and video production (but NOT development of Macromedia Flash) ■ Other responsibilities will include providing routine consulting support by U email or phone, or on a face-to-face basis, and additional projects as assigned. We currently plan to hire for these positions as soon as possible, and anticipate that these positions will continue through the 2003-2004 school year. Pay range will be for a Student Assistant #5 [$8.40-$10.90/hour). To apply, complete a Computing Center student application for employment, attach a cover letter explaining how your skills match one or more of the desired areas of specialization, provide a copy of your transcript and a sample term paper written for one of your classes as an example of your communication skills, and the names and phone numbers of three professional references. Applications are available from Ms. Lynn Buffing, 253 Computing Center (lbuffing@oregon.uoregon.edu, 541.346.1772) 'j. The UO is an AA/EO Institution Committed to Cultural Diversity r Nation & world briefing Republicans eliminate low-income tax credit James Kuhnhenn Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) WASHINGTON—With the stroke of a pen, President Bush this week speeded up tax cuts for middle- and upper-income taxpayers, but Repub lican congressional tax writers put the brakes on a provision that would have sent more money to millions of low-income working families. The decision not to speed up that benefit, overlooked in the rewriting flurry that preceded the tax cut’s passage last week, created a furor Thursday, with Democrats demand ing an immediate adjustment. The proposal in question would have allowed certain low-income families to receive bigger child tax credits. If they pay little or no taxes because their incomes are too low, the government sends them a check for the child credit. Under the 2001 tax-cut law, fami lies with incomes of less than $110,000 were entitled to up to $600 in credits per child, and in 2010 the credit would rise to $1,000. The new law accelerated the $1,000 credit to take effect this year. But as tax writers in the House of Representatives and the Senate worked to fit the tax-cutting bill into a $350 billion package, they jettisoned language that would have allowed low-income families to ben efit from the accelerated credit. “The unfairness of this omission in a bill that provides tax breaks of some $93,000 per year to million aires is particularly stark,” Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle wrote in a letter Thursday to Bush. The White House defended the de cision, arguing that tax cuts should benefit taxpayers, not low-income families who pay little or no taxes. White House spokesman Ari Fleisch er said that under the new tax reduc tion, 3 million people who used to pay taxes no longer will have to pay. He questioned whether those individuals should get even more, in the form of a child tax-credit payment. “That, in the end, is a redistribu tion of income; that is public assis tance above and beyond what people pay in their income taxes,” he said. Low-income families aren’t enti tled to a full tax credit. Their por tion is calculated on the basis of earnings above $10,500. The 2001 tax cut based the payment on 10 percent of earnings above that threshold. For instance, a family with earnings of $15,000 would re ceive a payment based on 10 per cent of $4,500, or $450. Under the 2001 law, the percent age of earnings formula would grow to 15 percent in 2005. The law Bush signed Wednesday accelerat ed the expanded child-tax credit but didn’t increase the percentage of earnings formula. Bottom line: Even though most families are now entitled to up to $1,000 per child, a family making $15,000 will still only get $450. If the percentage rate also had in creased, this family would have been entitled to $675. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal Washington re search center, estimates that nearly 12 million families won’t be eligible for an enhanced child credit payment. ©2003,Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Rumsfeld is trying to make foreign policy, officials say Joseph L. Galloway Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) WASHINGTON — President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Pow ell, national security adviser Con doleezza Pice and other top officials are spending hours coping with fre quent, unsolicited attempts by De fense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to make foreign policy, according to senior administration officials who are directly involved. The officials said Bush himself had to quash a Rumsfeld proposal last month to send Deputy Defense Sec retary Paul Wolfowitz to South Korea to announce that the United States was pulling American troops off the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. The announcement, involving no prior consultation with allies, would have come on the eve of new South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s first official visit to Washington. The officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said such a move would have embar rassed Roh and sent the wrong sig nals to North and South Korea about the steadfastness of the U.S. com mitment to defend South Korea. From his first days in office, Rumsfeld has inundated Washington with a blizzard of memos regarding foreign policy, not usually the re sponsibility of a defense secretary. “There are literally thousands of them,” said one frequent recipient of Rumsfeld’s foreign policy ideas and advice. “The theme is control. He wants everyone to have to play on his field.” In an April 29 memo addressed to Bush, Cheney and Powell, Rumsfeld suggested that the administration launch information operations to destabilize the communist regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong II. It was an idea that skeptics elsewhere in the administration dismissed as unlikely to make a dent in so rigid and secret a government. April was a banner month for “Snowflakes” and “Rummygrams,” as the defense secretary’s classified and unclassified memos are called. Rumsfeld’s frequent foreign-policy forays, with Vice President Dick Ch eney supporting some of them be hind the scenes, are driving Powell and his aides to distraction, the offi cials said. The secretary of state and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior officials said, has kept his nose out of Defense Depart ment business. © 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Wrtua! Office: Systems, inc. omputers In Partnership with UO Bookstore! 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