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Anthea Fallen-Bailey, 47, had mapped a course for employment after receiving her master's degree in geography in the summer of 2001, and it did not include the Great Plains. Struggling with a flat job market around Portland, Ore.--"there was nothing there"--she happened on a job posting for Navigation Technologies, a digital mapping firm. "I was really surprised they were in Fargo," she says. After a month of researching the company and the area, she applied and was quickly offered the job in July...
There are ways to rewrite your will or trust to defer that state tax, but you need to make sure that in doing so, your estate won't face a greater federal tax burden down the road. Portland, Ore., couple Betty and Les Barkley put a disclaimer in their will so that the surviving spouse could delay paying taxes by refusing to accept a portion of the estate. Another approach is to claim a special marital tax deduction. Giving away enough money to bring the taxable estate below the federal and state thresholds or moving to a state that...
...staging the tragedy at a fictional high school in his own city of Portland, Ore., Van Sant avoids this type of oversimplification, making what is surely one of the most thoughtful and inquisitive films of the year. Focusing on twelve students on the day of the shooting, Elephant patiently explores the pressures and indignities of being a high school student. The film renders its characters with unusual accuracy, commiserating with one student about the dress code for gym class and sharing the impatience of several juniors waiting for the day when they can go off-campus for lunch...
...accountant turned movie actor who, with a maniacal leer and dead eye (a result of being stuck with a pencil during a boyhood fight) specialized in playing mean hombres in such westerns as High Noon and Once Upon a Time in the West; of congestive heart failure; in Ashland, Ore. Later he showed his comedic skills in the 1969 parody Support Your Local Sheriff...
...crisis in the loss of manufacturing and skilled-labor jobs that will create a two-class economy: the wealthy and the fast-food and Wal-Mart workers. An economy like that is closer to the Third World than the U.S. of the 40s through the 70s. Mark Shanks Portland, Ore...