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...Couples earning more than $160,000 a year are ineligible, and if they earn $100,000 they can't convert an old IRA to the Roth. Boohoo for the rich? Not quite. A pair of big-city schoolteachers may not be able to convert, while some millionaires can. How? Defer a bonus. Take time off. For one year, just don't earn...
...course, no one is suggesting that you give up income just to qualify for a tax break. But more than ever it may make sense to defer income into 1999. Among other things, that might mean not selling any stocks for a gain that you can't offset with a loss. Under the new rules, a house sale could send your income soaring. If you are a doctor or lawyer, you can begin slowing your billing process later in the year...
...collective experience to draw upon, is convinced that each is 100 percent certain to be admitted when compared to the full slate of candidates who will be considered in the spring. Yearly variations in the rigor of the admissions competition here are relatively small and the Committee will defer a candidate if there is any doubt. Further, evidence of the high standard set for early admission is the fact that a considerable number of candidates deferred in Early Action are admitted in the spring. Last year, 222 Early Action defers were admitted to the Class...
...questioned the ultimate value of pursuing a linear track of learning, feeling that self-education might prove less limiting and more applicable," Payanzo says of her decision to defer...
...right of the majority to do just that. Writing about Dartmouth, "a Christian college founded for the Christianization of its students," in the words of the institution's President Hopkins in 1945, Buckley argues: "Why can't Judaism and Christianity go hand in hand at Dartmouth, with the conventional deference to the majority?" Universities, Buckley maintains, founded with a Christian mission should be able to continue the ideal of Christianizing their students. Those not "susceptible to Christian mores"--at Harvard, the more than 25 percent of the student body that is not Christian--should defer to the majority in public...