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...hard to think otherwise, even though the question of compensation for historical wrongs leads down a complicated road. For example, does anyone care to sort out the reparations that Hindus owe to Muslims, and Muslims owe to Hindus, in India, for the various massacres that have occurred just since independence...
...scheduled to meet this week with Mexico's Oil Minister at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He'll then travel to Oslo and, later in February, to the Middle East for more arm-twisting. Perhaps he'll remind the Kuwaitis and the Saudis that they owe the U.S. a favor. And he'll warn the producers that there are real macroeconomic risks to higher oil prices, such as choking off Asia's economic recovery...
...would be Mrs. Palmer Stoat), a thug named Mr. Gash and the eponymous ill canine, and you've got the ingredients for a hilarious novel that moves as quickly as untouched Florida shoreline is vanishing. Hiaasen's brand of storytelling--a blend of social satire, thriller and investigative journalism--owes as much to Tom Wolfe as it does to Quentin Tarantino. Or do they owe him? No matter. It's hard not to have a good time with this...
...owe President Rudenstine an enormous debt of gratitude for his initiative and success in mounting the first-ever University-wide campaign at Harvard," Fineberg wrote in an e-mail message...
...have $500,000 in company stock, with a cost basis of $100,000. If you are in the 31% tax bracket and take possession of the stock, you will immediately owe $31,000. But the eventual tax on that $400,000 will be just $80,000 for a total tax bite of $111,000. In an IRA rollover the total bite would be $155,000. And by taking possession, you can later pass the stock on to heirs at a stepped-up basis. Your heirs will pay capital-gains tax on the difference between the cost basis and the market...