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...teacher who grades tests and homework at home deduct part of his expenses for maintaining the dwelling. By and large, such deductions are now available only if the home office is a room that is used exclusively as an office-not just a desk or drafting table in the den-and is the taxpayer's "principal place of business." Loss to taxpayers: $207 million...
...cold morning when the toast burns and the child is crying. For centuries, men have told their wives that such problems were not very important, but the novelty is to be patronized by other women for "not doing anything really." Kathy Mertz, who enjoyed serving as a Cub Scout den mother in North Barrington, Ill., particularly resented a newly emancipated part-time secretary who periodically called on her to act as chauffeur for her child. Says Mertz: "She kept telling me that I ought to be 'doing something worthwhile'! What I was doing was giving her child care...
...den, the goal tender, has a law degree from McGill. Tall and intellectual, Dryden sees his team as a duality "First," he says, "is what we are: a hockey team that wins. That's what we are and all we are, really. But beyond that, there's the way people perceive us. More than a hockey team. That sort of thing. If you think about it enough, you can ask yourself which are you, the team that is or the team that people perceive...
...holes in it to raise blisters, then with a cat-o'-nine-tails. "When de whippin' wit de paddle was over, dey took de cat-o'-nine-tails and busted the blisters. By dis time de blood sometimes would be runnin' down deir heels. Den de next thing was a wash in salt water strong enough to hold up an egg." Then an ex-slave named Lindsey Faucette reported: "Marse never allowed us to be whipped . . . We worked in de day and had de nights to play games and have singin...
...narrator tries to arrange things so that his story, the stub of the pencil with which he writes it, and his life will all end at the same moment. It is hard to believe that Beckett will stop writing until he has to. He has made that bur den, after all, his despair and triumph...