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ERICA: She never spoke about it. She just sat down at 19 and wrote Normal Girl [a novel]. What always amazed me, because I've done some guest teaching for some writers, is that the hardest thing for any young writer is to get her voice into her work, and Molly seemed to have that from the beginning...
...Tara has one of the hardest shots I’ve ever seen,” said Nelson. “It’s a beautiful thing...
...fact, most of the rich don't pay it. You can be liable for the AMT's extra bite with a household income as low as $75,000, and you are more vulnerable the more kids you have. Hardest hit are the upper middle class: households earning $200,000 to $500,000 a year. More than half in this range pay the AMT, while only one-quarter of households earning over $1 million each year...
Some charge that Republicans have been slow to act on the AMT because it strikes traditionally Democratic states hardest. There is no denying that Democratic strongholds New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California are top AMT payers, mainly because of their above-average incomes and state and local tax burdens--two key AMT triggers. "There are some conservatives who look at that with a certain glee," notes Len Burman, a co-director at the Tax Policy Center in Washington. But with the AMT about to swamp the middle class in all states, both sides of the aisle have plenty...
Sometimes the hardest thing about being Secretary of State is managing relations with 191 other countries across the globe. And sometimes it's just making nice with three or four of your colleagues in the Cabinet. Colin Powell once told his British counterpart, Jack Straw, that intramural squabbling in Washington kept him from traveling. Every time he stepped onto an airplane to fly overseas, Powell said, someone in Washington stuck a knife in his back...