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...Just making sure you owe him for life. Now, you act, sing, dance and bend spoons with your mind. Have you made some kind of pact with the devil...
...blame the Saudis, who had three reasons for stepping out of OPEC's shadow Monday. They're concerned about the Asian and Latin American economies - too-pricey oil could choke off nascent recoveries and reduce demand down the road. They're mindful of that Gulf War IOU they still owe the U.S. for getting (and keeping) Saddam out of their backyard. And they're not anxious to become one of the Bush-Gore presidential campaign scapegoats. Gore has so far been content to bash Big Oil (the U.S. kind) and Bush the current administration's energy policy...
...while they're alive, they'll get hit with a cap-gains tax totaling $55,000 on their profit of $275,000. If they hold until death, though, their heirs will get the stock at the stepped-up basis of $300,000. They could turn around and sell, and owe no cap-gains tax. This money saver is an overriding motivator for many parents who choose not to sell, possibly forgoing a better end of their life. Under the bill, in some cases, that sacrifice would be for naught...
...letters from soldiers [NATION, May 29]. I would not be here today were it not for the courageous and brave American G.I.s who liberated me from a prison in Manila on Feb. 4, 1945. I was a teenager and had been interned by the Japanese for three years. We owe eternal thanks to those cheerful, high-spirited and wonderful G.I.s who answered the call to arms. God bless them all! BETSY HEROLD HEIMKE Overland Park, Kans...
...mother told me many times about the liberation, when the young boys from the U.S. and Britain came to liberate Acireale (the Sicilian town where we live) by fighting back the Germans. The Italian people have never forgotten the sacrifices, injuries, deaths and all that we owe to those American boys and their families. FRANCO BARBAGALLO Acireale, Italy...