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...President's proposal to eliminate double taxation on stock dividends is a magnum opus of confusion. Want proof? It took Wall Street nearly a week to grasp one of the plan's most fundamental notions: shareholders would be no better off tax-wise with companies that pay a dividend than with those that do not. Still sinking in: dividend investors might even be hurt in the short run because the Bush plan makes it silly to own such stocks in tax-favored accounts, where most people invest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: How to Play the Tax Plan | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...President's proposal to eliminate double taxation on stock dividends is a magnum opus of confusion. Want proof? It took Wall Street nearly a week to grasp one of the plan's most fundamental notions: shareholders would be no better off tax-wise with companies that pay a dividend than with those that do not. Still sinking in: dividend investors might even be hurt in the short run because the Bush plan makes it silly to own such stocks in tax-favored accounts, where most people invest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Play the Tax Plan | 1/14/2003 | See Source »

...Rawls’ magnum opus, A Theory of Justice, is regarded as a staple of undergraduate curriculums and is studied by economists, political scientists and legal academics alike...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Distinguished Philosopher, Professor Dies at 81 | 11/26/2002 | See Source »

...youth in the words of a Michigan militia member: "It's an American responsibility to be armed. If you're not armed, you're not responsible." The director is a little spooked by James Nichols, tofu farmer and brother of Oklahoma City bomber Terry, who shows Moore the loaded Magnum .44 under his pillow and points it at his own temple. Nichols stops short of saying people have the right to weapons-grade plutonium. After all, he sagely notes, "there's wackos out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Blood Bath and Beyond | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

Biologists remembered Gould both for his evolutionary theory known as “punctuated equilibrium,” which revolutionized the field by stating that evolution occurs not gradually but in fits and starts, and for his magnum opus The Structure of Evolutionary Theory...

Author: By Andrew C. Campbell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gould Commemorated | 9/27/2002 | See Source »

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