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...husband Philip Graham took over the ailing Post, and Graham ended her own short-lived writing career to concentrate on the family?s home life. She focused on raising their children and entertaining in their Georgetown home until the increasingly manic-depressive Phil committed suicide...
...Comanche to the Crow, who had long used the canyon as place of worship and regard it (as do anthropologists) as a living link to their collective pasts, petitioned Washington to reverse its policy. The BLM stood pat, so the tribes went to Anschutz--which is run by Philip Anschutz, a billionaire with an eye for hidden value--and to the press. Perhaps mindful of the scrutiny, the company agreed to meet the protesters...
Some tax pros have been angling for ways to reset the meter without moving. Philip Holthouse, a partner at the Los Angeles tax firm Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt, says you can do that by setting up a trust and selling the house to your adult children. Future gains will accrue to family members tax free, and it may help in estate planning too. He warns, though, that children without income cannot take advantage of the mortgage deduction, which may be worth more than any capital-gains tax saving. Another option is to sell your house and lease it back with...
...masterful comic novels derived from that vantage point. He became a Canadian Mencken, caustically attacking separatists and French language supremacists. But he could also go to Waugh, matching in his best fiction?from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) to Barney's Version (1997)?the work of contemporaries Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. The Scotch drinking, Schimmelpenninck cigar-smoking Mordecai was never a follower of stylish food fads. Dine with him in a deli and order a pastrami lean, and Mordecai would tell the waiter, "Bring me his fat." Our lives will all be a little leaner without...
...should prefer Philip Roth. Roth, like me, is a Jew from New Jersey who pens embarrassingly explicit sexual confessions. But his prose is not poetry. He is not breaking new ground. He is not Thomas Pynchon...