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...ANGELES: Comedian Pat Paulsen died Thursday after a battle with cancer. The 69-year-old best known for his quixotic White House runs succumbed to complications from pneumonia and kidney failure. Paulsen became a household name some 30 years ago on the Smothers Brothers show, where he first announced tongue-in-cheek that he was running for President under a new party, the Straight Talkin' American Government or STAG. Paulsen's deadpan political schtick caught on with thousands of Americans, many of whom voted for him in five presidential elections. He claimed to have finished second behind President Clinton...
...chief conclusion was that the impact of day care was far less important to the mental and emotional development of the children than was the character of their family life. That included everything from household income to their mother's vocabulary and the attention and intellectual stimulation they got at home. Researchers calculated that just 1% of the differences among children could be traced to day-care factors but 32% could be explained by the differing quality of their experiences within their families...
...single taxpayer means getting access to as many as nine different computer systems. The once vaunted IRS computer system has trouble accomplishing what would seem to be the most basic of functions: reconciling Social Security numbers, W-2 forms and even the number of children in a household. Notes Gross: "Resolving taxpayer account issues often requires considerable research on multiple systems and a series of complex, time-consuming tasks to update the various databases." In English: You can't get there from here. "Dysfunctional as some of these systems may be today," Gross says, "the IRS is wholly dependent...
...pain of his wife's leaving him, or from his brother's death." Just below, a headline about a local member of the cult read "Mass. native joined cult after sad childhood"; the article painted her life as a virtual trail of tears, beginning with her father leaving the household when she was four...
Advanta Corp. 53 1/4 28 1/8 -47% MBNA 36 5/8 30 7/8 -16% Household International 105 5/8 93 7/8 -11% Capital One Financial 42 1/4 38 5/8 -9% First...