Word: fatherness
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...hard to get him to stop talking. Ask the man a simple question and you get a 10-minute harangue in response. This harangue is likely to feature libertarian political opinions that are by Schiff's own admission pretty extreme--inherited as they were from a father currently in prison (at age 81!) for refusing to pay income...
...course, Schiff isn't mainstream. His father Irwin decided in the 1970s that the federal income tax was unconstitutional and has spent the years since shuttling between courtrooms and prisons. Schiff's parents divorced when he was 5, and he was raised by his mother. But it was his father who got him reading libertarian icons Ayn Rand, Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. And taxpaying Peter is wistful about failing to follow fully in Dad's footsteps. "I'm taking the easy way out," he says...
...original version had the age of Schiff's father as 90. The correct...
...busted Sherman Oaks, Calif., where five families compete in a home-renovation contest to win the titular sum. One family sank everything into a home it bought a year and a half ago, which has since lost $150,000 in value. A single mom faces foreclosure. A laid-off father of two says, "Unless we win this, we could be the next for SALE sign on this block." (See the top 10 TV series...
...revealed last month that Berlusconi had attended the girl's 18th birthday party and showered her with expensive gifts. Two days after the aggrieved spouse made the charge, she asked for a divorce. The Prime Minister stated publicly that he'd known Letizia only through her parents, and the father declared his daughter "chaste," saying Berlusconi was an acquaintance he had made through local politicians. But the center-left daily La Repubblica and opposition leader Dario Franceschini have hammered away at inconsistencies in the Prime Minister's account of his relationship with the family. Then on Thursday, Berlusconi broke...