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There was more to Al Gore's hangover Thursday morning than an excess of champagne during the previous night's $26 million Democratic fund-raising gala. He'd scored one for free trade and corporate campaign donations by being on the winning side of the China trade bill, but he'd had to buck the Big Labor heavies - and like a boozy faux pas, it might be coming back to haunt him. He'd asked unions the classic New Democrat question - where else you gonna go? - but this time they were giving it some serious thought. "In the end, most...
GRANTOR RETAINED ANNUITY TRUST This lets you fund an annuity that will pay you at a market rate, but with any excess returns remaining in the trust and passing to heirs outside your estate. A typical example would be someone planning to sell a family business within five years. You set up a GRAT with low-priced pre-sale stock. The GRAT pays you back the equivalent of about 8% a year, based on current rates. But actual returns are likely to be far higher when the company is sold. The excess returns stay out of your estate...
...exotic foreign land beckons and you can't stay for her upcoming Somerville concert, make sure to pick up the nearest approximation to her on-stage beauty, her new album Beautiful Creature. Hatfield's emotions always feel like a dam about to break, with the uncontainable excess spilling over the edge, sometimes in a small stream and other times in a tidal wave. "Slow Motion" is musical elegance, a feather dancing in a calm breeze. "Might Be In Love" is as sincere a love song as I have heard in years, combining touching, flirting and longing. "Daniel" is light...
...object in "Sanitation" seems unjustifiably placed, like Darwin without niche theory. Never do the rectilinear and exclusionary lines formulate a cohesive composition. All in all, the composition is balanced to the point of fragmentation, making it difficult to view the exhibit as a whole. The only exception to the excess of orthogonality is Haacke's diagonal placement of a framed copy of the First Amendment across the floor of the installation space. Had this object been better tied to Jasper Johns's down-turned flag, an interesting crucifixion motif might have been seen, with the twelve Rubbermaids as disciples...
IRON IN THE FIRE It's a risk factor that most folks probably never considered: stroke victims with high blood levels of iron may be more prone to subsequent neurological disorders--like weakness and difficulty speaking--than patients with normal levels. Why? Excess iron may promote the formation of cell-destroying free radicals in the brain, according to researchers in Spain. Though it's too early to know for sure, those at high risk for stroke may want to cut back protectively on their iron intake...