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Durst was born to privilege, but he has always lived on the edge of trouble. Westchester, N.Y., district attorney Jeanine Pirro is investigating the 1982 disappearance of his first wife, Kathleen McCormack. He is also a "possible suspect," according to Los Angeles police, in the murder of Susan Berman, an L.A. writer who was executed gangland style on Christmas Eve 2000. Oh--and while he was on the lam, Durst sometimes dressed as a woman...
Durst now sits in a Texas jail. Galveston district attorney Kurt Sistrunk told TIME he plans to pursue a charge of bail jumping against Durst, for which he could receive a prison term of up to 10 years. And Durst could soon be back in court to face a wrongful-death civil suit brought by Black's sister Gladys Saslaw, which would require a lighter burden of proof than the one he faced for Black's murder. For that, he may have to mount another extraordinary performance. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
Eighteen states--including Oregon, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania--and the District of Columbia have separated, or "decoupled," their estate tax from the federal system. "Now those states will be imposing a tax equal to what the state death-tax credit used to be," says Lawrence Chane, an estate-planning attorney with Blank Rome in Philadelphia. "But because there won't be a credit against the federal tax, the overall tax burden for families in those states is going to increase substantially...
...restaurants. Taking our cue from the mangled English slogan of one such joint - "The secret is in the test" - our team of six American soldiers and three Iraqi civil servants set out to find Baghdad's best pie. First stop: Al-Sa'ah, the famous eatery in the Mansour district, next to the house U.S. forces bombed back in April in the belief that Saddam was hiding there. Happily, the restaurant emerged unscathed. Sa'ah serves pan-style pizzas ($2.50 for a large pie) that have plenty of cheese but seemingly no tomato paste. "This one's too plain," says...
...Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District by Ben Katchor (Pantheon; 2000) Although Katchor's long-form "Jew of New York" better qualifies as a graphic novel, I prefer his collected strips in the "Julius Knipl" series. Freshly released in paperback, this third volume contains more of Katchor's picture-poem odes to non-existent urban districts and fantastical people like the radiator musician...