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...basic case is this: 529s let you invest money without having Uncle Sam reach in each year and tax your earnings. Thanks to the magic of compounding, a yearly investment of $3,000 that grows, say, 7% annually, to $38,632 after 10 years, could grow tax free to $44,351, according to Robert Matricardi at T. Rowe Price. (You also don't get taxed when you spend the money, though that little bonus will run out at the end of 2010 unless Congress extends...
According to Acosta, one possibility open to Ma is to work with the Messengers of Peace program, along with fellow performers Luciano Pavarotti and Michael Douglas, as well as Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, scientist Jane Goodall, and athletes Magic Johnson and Muhammad...
MARY POPPINS WAS PRETTY, AND SHE SANG. WHAT HAS NANNY MCPHEE GOT ON THAT? She has a magic stick. She makes space. She's the opposite of Mary Poppins, who turns up and shows off and starts pulling things out of her carpetbag. This movie is a western. There is a situation of chaos. Then a stranger rides in and--using unorthodox methods--sorts out the situation, restores balance and then has to leave. People say, "Is it like Mary Poppins?" Actually, it's like Shane...
...children many times over the past 20 years, I was curious about how I would respond to a film version. I was delighted. The four child actors did a splendid job. Corliss should lighten up, take a break from postmodern deconstructionism and take a trip through the magic wardrobe! Despite what Corliss thinks, there is indeed fire, passion and a lot of fun in the film. KEN FAST Derwent, Alta...
...surprise that Spielberg quoted Allen; the two great filmmakers breathe the same ether. My living room is graced with two film posters, one for Spielberg's Schindler's List, the other for Allen's Shadows and Fog. I look at them to remind myself of the hope and magic that great directors can bring to an audience. Regina Morin San Diego Showing Gays the Door My thanks to Andrew Sullivan for his thoughtful essay, "The Vatican's New Stereotype," on the Roman Catholic Church's new rules barring gays from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. He expressed so well...