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Your money: you need proof from the charity that the contribution has been made. If you donate less than $250, then canceled checks, checking-account statements, credit-card bills and receipts from the charity will all suffice. At levels of $250 or more, written receipts or letters from the charity are necessary...
DIED. WILLIAM ROTH JR., 82, former Republican Senator of Delaware from 1971 to 2001 best known as the architect of a popular tax-sheltered retirement account; of heart failure; in Washington. A budget watchdog who once discovered that the Defense Department was paying $9,600 for a wrench and $640 for a toilet seat, he co-sponsored the 1981 Kemp-Roth tax cuts that became a centerpiece of Reaganomics. His Roth IRA first became available in 1998, allowing people to make tax-free withdrawals for retirement, education or first-time home purchases...
...rebate for firms selling abroad. Multinationals operating in China complained. "Foreign companies were hurt disproportionately because so many are set up for export and expected that rebate," says a senior executive of Motorola, which sells Chinese-made mobile phones around the world. Sales from foreign companies operating in China account for more than half of China's exports. That has made U.S. businesses especially wary of American protectionism, and small U.S. firms trying to compete with China tend to receive little sympathy from their larger cousins...
...diarist seems too sedentary a career goal, there's always piracy. How I Became a Pirate, by Melinda Long, with bright and densely colored illustrations by David Shannon, is the funny and sly account of a young boy who makes a brief foray on a pirate ship before realizing he wants to be home in time for soccer practice and a bedtime story...
...Another example: ?Waltz into Darkness.? Like ?I Married a Dead Man,? it has a wife who appears out of nowhere, lies about her identity, wins the love of a decent man, and withdraws thousands from a new bank account to pay off a slime-ball who was once her lover. The difference is that Julia, in ?Waltz,? is a killer bitch with a larcenous agenda and an ex-beau even creepier than Helen?s Steve. [SPOILER] This guy, Billy, has killed the real Julie, who was a mail-order bride on her way to rich, nice-guy Louis. His pretty...