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Senior Mark Riddell lost in the first round of the double-elimination singles tourney to William & Mary’s Sean Kelleher, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, but won two matches in the consolation bracket before retiring due to a minor foot injury after dropping the first set of the fourth round to top-seeded Stephen Mitchell of Alabama...
Next I lunched with Ms. Muni Bonds. But municipals aren't great for someone in the 15% tax bracket, as I expected to be. I attended a delicious complimentary dinner, at which I met Mr. Cash-Flow Chart, who later projected how fantastically my retirement savings would grow. Unfortunately, his math was as fantastic as his chart. Mr. Financial Planner was recommended by a colleague. All I needed to hear of his financial plan was that it was a plan to relieve me of a large chunk of my finances each year in return for his services. Then, through...
...down. As air traffic grew, hotels were built at a far quicker pace than before. Asian tourism boards launched huge, well-funded publicity campaigns, and Western travel media obliged with extensive coverage. In the 1990s, as the stock-market bubble unloosened discretionary loot for workers in virtually every economic bracket, long-haul travel took off like a rocket. According to Rob Langtry, a P.R. consultant who was advising the Indonesian government at that time, "annual growth in the upper teens got to be taken for granted...
...ultra-liberal friends dismissed my interest as selling out. I could “work for the man” if I wanted, but I couldn’t complain when they made me buy them dinner. While I don’t mind jumping up a tax bracket or two for eight weeks, I’m pretty sure the interest was less about the money and more about the lifestyle. In part, I wanted to answer the same question that I was getting asked...
...says such a plan would allow insurers to reduce current health-care premiums 10% across the board. Kerry would also provide tax subsidies for those who don't have health insurance, as would several other Democratic presidential candidates. He would pay for the expanded coverage by rescinding the upper-bracket Bush tax cuts, as would the others. But his catastrophic safety net is unique and suggests a universal principle: government should involve itself in only the most serious health-care situations for the most needy people. Unfortunately, neither party seems in much of a mood for a careful discussion...