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Although the federal estate tax is set to disappear in 2010, many states aren't as eager to bury their own death taxes. In the past, most states imposed an estate tax that was linked to the federal tax. The Federal Government would give the estate a credit for the amount of the state estate tax paid. Now Congress has decreased that state death-tax credit--it's scheduled to go away in 2005. Yet some states have changed their laws to keep that money coming in--by imposing their own estate...
...choleric loser, Ed was the lucky buffoon. Like the Looney Tunes character Pepe Le Pew (another bon vivant blithely ignorant of the way the world saw and smelled him), Norton exuded a sweet assurance that life would treat him as he treated life: with an easy shrug and an eager guffaw. That's how an acute farceur humanized a sewer rat for audiences of the '50s and every TV generation since. --By Richard Corliss
...combine both in a new, elite military corps? Call them Extreme Peacekeepers or the Freedom Corps or whatever, but seek out the sort of people who aren't normally inclined to join the military--idealistic college students who hope to become doctors, lawyers, politicians or engineers and are eager to do something noble (and burnish their resumes) by serving their country...
More threatening to the masses of eager football fans was a temporary bomb scare that had the New Haven and Yale police cordoning off part of the Bowl’s perimeter and searching it with bomb-sniffing dogs (Please see related story, at left...
They also didn’t know the type of competitor he was. Or how eager he was to improve himself. Or how much he loved football...