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Despite observers, Syria’s Assad hikes crackdown (AP)

This image made from amateur video and made available by Shaam News Network Thursday Dec. 22, 2011, purports to show smoke clouds after heavy shelling in Homs, Syria. Fresh raids and gunfire by government forces on Thursday killed at least 19 people, most of them in the central city of Homs and northern Idlib province, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via APTN) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT, DATE, LOCATION OR AUTHENTICITY OF THIS MATERIAL.  TV OUTAP – Bashar Assad’s regime would appear to be setting itself on a collision course: It let in outside observers for the first time Thursday to monitor his commitment to halting the crackdown on dissent, even as his security forces unleashed a fiercer onslaught this week, killing more than 200 in two days.


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Readers debate tuition hikes, presidential politics and the Mets

Manhattan: Re Your Dec. 5 editorial (“Fair deal at CUNY”) supporting the tuition hike at City University institutions: This is a fair deal. Kudos to former CUNY trustee Herman Badillo, Chairman Benno Schmidt and Chancellor Matthew Goldstein for their efforts at increasing standards at the CUNY colleges.

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Yemen president’s return hikes fear of escalation (AP)

FILE - In this file image taken from a prerecorded video and broadcast July 7, 2011 on Yemen state TV from Saudi Arabia, Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh makes his first public appearance since he was injured in a blast at his palace compound in June, 2011. President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned Friday to the violence-torn Yemeni capital after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a surprise move certain to further enflame battles between forces loyal to him and his opponents. (AP Photo/Yemen state TV, File)  YEMEN OUTAP – President Ali Abdullah Saleh abruptly returned home to Yemen on Friday after more than three months of being treated in Saudi Arabia for wounds from an assassination attempt, in a move apparently aimed to ensure his grip as his loyalists and opponents wage urban warfare in the capital.


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Obama defends tax hikes for wealthy: ‘This is not class warfare’

President Obama fired off a shot in what Republicans call “class warfare” Monday -  proposing $1.5 trillion in tax hikes on millionaires to cut the nation’s rising deficit.

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Big price hikes on food, clothes set to wallop us

Fresh financial pain is on the way, with price hikes expected on everything from underwear to cereal.

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Bill preventing big tax hikes heads to Obama Fri. (AP)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., heads into a Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. is at left, Rep. Bob Etheridge, D-N.C. is at center. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)AP – A massive bipartisan tax package preventing a big New Year’s Day tax hike for millions of Americans is on its way to President Barack Obama for his signature Friday.


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Bill preventing big tax hikes heads to Obama (AP)

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., walks near the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – A massive bipartisan tax package preventing a big New Year’s Day tax hike for millions of Americans is on its way to President Barack Obama for his signature.


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