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• "It was a grab bag of fee increases across the board to close the budget deficit," said Michael Widmer, president of the nonpartisan Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed fiscal watchdog group.
• Romney's handling of the fiscal crisis when he took over as governor in 2003 is a guide to how he might act on his promises for lower taxes and reduce the federal deficit if he's elected president. He has sketched a broad, fiscally conservative vision during the primaries but has yet to specify how he would pay for it.
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DC adds 6 new titles, including contemporary take on 'G.I. Combat,' to relaunched titles
• PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- More than eight months after upending its universe of classic heroes and ongoing titles, DC Entertainment is bringing six more titles to readers, including a contemporary take on its vintage war comic, "G.I. Combat."
• The book, one of six new titles in comic shops on Wednesday, features a pair of stories that focus on modern-day U.S. soldiers in situations both fantastic, chaotic and, in some cases, out of time, too.
• Writer J.T. Krul's offering focuses on a pair of special forces operatives stationed aboard a U.S. Navy ship in the Sea of Japan. As it monitors North Korea, a dead zone immune to any and all radar, sonar, satellite imagery and more pops up, causing concern about what may be hiding there.
• What they find there is something out of an H.G. Wells novel or a science fiction film, he said, noting the title of the first chapter is "The War That Time Forgot."
• "It's a lot like 'Predator,'" Krul said in an interview this week about the dynamic between the two soldiers -- Stevens and Elliott -- as they're forced to react, and fight, a force unlike any they've trained for.
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Holiday scores 26, 76ers pull away in 3rd to beat Bulls 109-92 in Game 2
• CHICAGO (AP) -- There wasn't much for Jrue Holiday to improve on in this game, except maybe one thing.
• "I could have been 15 for 15," he said.
• Holiday didn't hit all his shots. It just seemed like it.
• Holiday scored 26 points, Lou Williams added 20 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat Chicago 109-92 on Tuesday night to even their first-round series at 1-1 in the (Continued on page 48)
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