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...always, you'll want to defer income where possible and accelerate deductions. That might mean taking a bonus in January rather than December, if you have a choice, or paying your last estimated quarterly state income tax in December instead of January. Other ways to pull deductions forward: prepay health-insurance premiums, student-loan and mortgage interest and some college tuition...
...could it be that Jeff Fowler was destined to play this part? He did sing Jesus' big solo, "Gethsemane," for his Common Casting audition, but there are more obvious similarities. Just as the ancients had problems accepting Jesus' teachings, so too did Harvard defer this Jesus' proposal for a special concentration. And then there's the long hair, which the then-crewcutted Fowler began growing out in the spring of this year in mental and physiological preparation for the role he hoped to take on."Growing out my hair was sort of positive reinforcement, looking in the mirror every...
Grodd started working for Bradley over the summer, and decided less than a month into the summer he was going to defer his first year at Harvard...
...both Harvard and Radcliffe. The Radcliffe Institute has a bright future ahead of it, and in the long run will benefit from having a clearly defined status within the University, something Radcliffe College did not have in its final years. Harvard, on the other hand, now can no longer defer responsibility for women's issues to Radcliffe...
...which the Spanish case against Pinochet are based are not just widely accepted, they are also logical. If, as Pinochet's supporters argue, third party nations should not be able to try Pinochet, then the world would be made subject to his decree of immunity. Foreign nations would defer charges to Chile, which would do nothing about them, and Pinochet's victims would be left without recourse. If taken seriously, Pinochet's argument would mean that any criminal leader could avoid all consequences of their actions, simply by granting him or herself immunity. If Slobodon Milosevic decides to grant himself...