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INHERITED IRAS The IRS seems to agree with fund companies that allow inherited IRAs to pass on after you do. In a private-letter ruling, the agency has given the go-ahead for nonspouse beneficiaries to roll the accounts over. The maneuver can spare your heirs a hefty tax bill by avoiding the customary one-time cash-out. Naming another beneficiary will not extend the life of the account, and payments must be distributed at least as rapidly as the pace set by the original owner, regardless of who receives the cash...
UNCENSORED The Internet has hardly been obscenity free. But in the past, using what George Carlin once called the "seven dirty words" in a domain name was taboo. No more. Now that domain registry is no longer a monopoly, some registrars are apparently winking at four-letter words. Indeed, one of those new custodians of Web domains, Net Wizards, claims that those former no-nos "account for 75% of our business." Blanketyblank.com...
...Because of a programming error, anticipated financial aid was not put on the term bill," said Dean of Financial Aid James S. Miller. "The letter did go out and everybody was billed for the full amount...
...Since March, Network Solutions has been limiting access to the full database of name registrations. But those days may be numbered. Last week the U.S. Commerce Department sent Network Solutions a letter, released yesterday, saying the directory is public property. "We strongly object to NSI's restrictive policy." Citing the 1993 agreement with the government that effectively created the Network Solutions monopoly on dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domain names, the Commerce Department letter continued, "nothing in the cooperative agreement, nor in existing law gives, NSI the right to restrict access to this information." MORE...
Their departure was not without other large dollops of irony. In an open letter to Levin, Daly and Semel cited their "two spectacular, unbelievable decades" at Warner, a 19-year tenure spent mostly at the top of the film heap. And in recent years Warner's highly profitable television business even eclipsed the movie studio, creating such TV hits as ER and Friends and the rapidly rising WB network. Along the way they took the reins of Time Warner's vast $4 billion music empire following one of the brutal power struggles that periodically boiled up after Time Inc. merged...