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...DIED. ANDREA DWORKIN, 58, provocative feminist author whose writings dramatically influenced, and often polarized, the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington D.C. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her own experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse "a means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle, soft-spoken...
Probably the most popular of the write-offs are limited partnerships, which have proliferated as tax shelters since the late 1970s and early '80s. An orthodontist investing in a real estate venture, for example, can deduct from his taxable income a share of the venture's losses based on the amount of his investment. Yet his actual liability is limited--hence the name of the arrangement--to the cash value of his initial in vestment. Thus if a partner invests $10,000, or 10% of a partnership's total investment, and the venture loses $700,000, he will be able...
...changed noticeably in recent years: 55% oppose making abortion illegal; 60% favor mandatory handgun registration; 75% are for the wider use of the death penalty; 69% favor a constitutional amendment permitting prayer in the classroom. The general mood of the nation may have grown more conservative in the '80s but, evidently, activists on neither the right nor the left have had much success in altering American thought on these crucial matters of our time. --By Jacob V. Lamar...
Died. Andrea Dworkin, 58, provocative feminist author whose writings--against pornography in particular--dramatically influenced and often polarized the women's movement of the 1970s and '80s; in her sleep, of undisclosed causes; in Washington. Ignoring critics who mocked her uncompromising polemics and unapologetically unfashionable appearance, she drew on her experiences as a battered wife and rape victim in such books as Woman Hating and Intercourse. She wrote that pornography was a "celebration of rape and injury to women," sexual intercourse a "means of physiologically making a woman inferior" and marriage a "license to rape." By all accounts a gentle...
...dumbest investment I ever made was to buy an apartment in Manhattan in the late '80s. Prices were soaring and it seemed like an effortless way to get rich, so my brother and I pooled our money and bought a place for $327,000. Within 18 months, the market had tanked and the apartment's value had plunged by a third. By then, our tenant?who turned out to be a coke-snorting stripper?had stopped paying rent. When I threatened to change the locks, she whacked me on the head with her handbag and warned: "I know people...