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...narrative with little parenthetical explanations. About one of Wallingford's girlfriends: "She had problems with men, or at least she thought she had. (Same difference.)" About film footage of Jackie Kennedy: "She looks so young, Wallingford thought. (She was young--it was 1961!)." Irving has always been a generous author, but here his constant fussing to make sure that the reader is comfortable and picking up every single nuance grows wearisome. Hush, please, we're trying to read...
European and Japanese renewable-energy firms have prospered in part thanks to citizen commitment and government subsidies far more generous than those available to U.S. firms. A greater advantage for the foreign firms, however, is the higher price charged in their home countries for electricity generated by fossil fuels. Governments in Europe and Japan heavily tax oil, gas and coal to capture some of the hidden costs--from pollution and global warming to vehicular traffic--of consuming it. In the U.S., solar and wind energy have looked less attractive--at least until recently when fuel-generated electricity prices spiked...
...growing number of Americans are hitting the road to dodge taxes, and the IRS can't touch them. Why? Far from being on the lam, these tax-wise migrants are changing addresses to take advantage of generous tax laws that apply to the sale of a primary residence. Couples can exclude as much as $500,000 of gain ($250,000 for singles) when selling any house they've lived in for at least two of the previous five years. Thanks to a torrid real estate market, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of upscale homeowners now sit atop such fat gains...
...Wagner mentioned that he had an offer on the table from power generators, including the "Big Five" - AES/Williams, Duke, Dynegy, Mirant and Reliant - for oh, $700 million, which clearly did not satisfy the California people. But perhaps for the front page, Wagner shrugged and took a more generous guess: Maybe a refund to the state of perhaps $1 billion was due, but there was the matter of the utilities' unpaid bills...
...Bello when he is--wide-eyed, charged with energy. We never actually did the gig--the schedule didn't work out or something--but I'll pay him these compliments, from one clown to another: first, I had a great time--Bello is one of the sunniest and most generous men I've ever known. Essentially I was just there that day as a comic feed, and elder statesman, to feature some of his trampoline business, but I didn't want to be blown completely out of the water. As with any great practitioner, he had me on my toes...