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...losing some wiretaps. That's just the FBI; it would say the same thing about telepathy if it had it. The true secret mavens of crypto are at the NSA. Spy-code breakers such as Alan Turing invented electronic computers in the first place, so the NSA has a long-held hegemony here. The NSA sets the U.S. government's agenda on crypto, and it will not fairly or openly debate this subject, ever...
...source other than the church." Robbins says he suspects his version may have hit a little too close to home, causing the Vatican to scramble for cover. "I'd hate to accuse the Pope of reading my book, but 10 days after it's published, they reveal a long-held secret as something pretty wimpy and innocuous." Cover-up or divine coincidence? You decide...
...lips on a proffered pot of soil as he visits a new land) can lend validity to states, policies and causes. Moreover, he heads an entity with its own foreign policy goals: from a desire to protect the religious sites and fast-vanishing Christians of the Holy Land, to long-held support of a Palestinian homeland, to the recent rapprochement with Israel--goals that the Pontiff could not alter simply to wow an audience. The strictly spiritual stops on the trip were interspersed with so many loaded encounters, shifting on an almost hourly basis--If this is Thursday it must...
...control over your nest egg. In the long run, though, all such IRA money gets taxed as ordinary income, at rates up to 39.6%. By stripping out the employer shares and placing them in a taxable account, you change the math dramatically. There's an up-front tax hit: the "cost basis" of the employer shares--the amount the plan paid--gets taxed as ordinary income. But the increase in value isn't taxed until you sell the shares and then at the lower capital-gains rate of 20% for long-held assets...
...Ventura advisers quickly downplayed the significance of the remarks, saying they do not represent a change in the governor's long-held personal view on the subject. In previous interviews, Ventura has said he's not interested in running...