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...course, no one knows what the IRS will do, but Bob Goldstein, a senior consultant at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York City, says he was assured by the IRS that "guidance would be forthcoming" - by April 15, one hopes. He suggests a simple approach for both the victims and the IRS. "If the [IRS] were to allow the victim to deduct his or her tax basis, less the SIPC recovery and less a small reserve for other recoveries, as a theft loss on the victim's 2008 tax return, the taxpayer could quantify the loss quickly and file...
...minute talks in Japan. Bill Clinton has amassed tens of millions on the podium--a fact that briefly imperiled his wife's nomination to be Secretary of State. Senior staffers like Henry Kissinger and presidential also-rans Al Gore and Rudy Giuliani have also parlayed political power into riches. Bob Dole, in lesser demand after getting trounced by Clinton in 1996, became a TV pitchman for everything from debit cards to erectile-dysfunction pills. Further evidence, perhaps, that it's good to be the boss...
Paul Rudd doesn't seem like a leading man until you remember that some men star in movies with other men. Bob Hope didn't beat up criminals or woo ladies, and likewise, Rudd, who at 5 ft. 10 somehow projects 5 ft. 6, has found the perfect expression of his charming, nonthreatening slyness in the buddy comedy. After playing a lot of leading men's friends (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up) and nice guys embraced by leading women after they've come to their senses (Friends, Clueless), Rudd has graduated to playing the lead...
...Valkyries” as Dr. Manhattan wins in Vietnam. Inclusion of Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of “All Along the Watchtower” and the overused Simon and Garfunkel hit “The Sounds of Silence” feels heavy-handed and forced, but Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” brilliantly caps a montage explaining the alternate world in which the Watchmen reside. This is almost enough to forgive Leonard Cohen’s painful original performance of “Hallelujah...
...this is achieved, along with maintaining employment, then the impact of the economic crisis will certainly be reduced. This is basic first aid while the brains of the financial world determine just how to organize the international economy for the benefit for everyone and not just the greedy. Bob McCullough, Karana Downs, Australia...