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This splendid slack week between Christmas and the New Year is one during which many Americans start pulling together their financial records for the year. And it's a good time to engage in some last-minute tax planning--especially this year, with the tax code changing considerably on Jan. 1. Since the passage of the new tax law earlier this year, most taxpayers have already enjoyed a reduction in their income tax rate. Further reductions will kick in starting in 2002, so deferring income and accelerating deductions can translate into even bigger savings than usual. Here...
...first and second alarms sounded in unison at 8:47 at firehouses across lower Manhattan. The third was transmitted at 8:48 as a 10-60, code for a major emergency. No fourth alarm was necessary; at 8:56 the blaze was upgraded to a five-alarm fire. Because the night tour was just then being relieved, two shifts of men were milling around most firehouses, bantering about the morning's headlines (AIR WE GO AGAIN, blared the New York Post about Michael Jordan's comeback) and the previous evening's calls. That meant that double the men were...
...inspiring their country's military had become. At the end of October, as the forces of the Northern Alliance seemed to shirk a fight and the residents of Kabul left town each night for the Taliban's front lines (where they knew they would not be bombed), the usual code words were to be found all over the media: quagmire, stalemate and, of course, Vietnam. Within two weeks, the Taliban had been routed from the cities of Afghanistan's north and turfed out of Kabul. Three weeks later, the Taliban deserted its stronghold in Kandahar, while its leaders, together with...
...After a hard day exploring this earthly Eden, head to one of the park's many bars to chill out. The favored drink: ice-cold beer. The dress code: ultra-casual. The attitude: always unruffled, despite the heart-stopping booms and jagged lightning ripping across yonder horizon. Maybe a thirsty Namarrgon is demanding his own brew...
...committee called on Harvard to adopt a code of workplace conduct and urged Summers to issue a “strong” statement about workplace expectations...