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...were deliberately preserved to recall the destructiveness, the ugliness, of the bombing. Without them, the memorial would look solely like a pastoral landscape--soothing and quietly evocative, yet minus clues that something terrible had taken place. "One does not enshrine the violence," says Linenthal, "but it is necessary to retain some edge." He believes modern memorials provide "a sense of turning to the past for orientation, cautionary tales and moral lessons. They are seen as ways to correct the sins and evasions of the past...
Specifically GTC hopes to include "green building" practices in the design and construction of new buildings by the University's various schools. Such practices include designing buildings to take advantage of sunlight in an effort to reduce the demands of artificial lighting, making buildings retain heat better in winter and coolness better in summer and improving indoor air quality...
...movie star. That was fine with him, for the family business wasn't acting; it was international celebrity, a trade his father Douglas Sr. virtually invented. It seemed his son, with whom I collaborated on a book and a 25-year friendship, wanted to see if he could retain his fame by appearing as little as possible in public...
QUALIFIED PERSONAL RESIDENCE TRUST This lets you get a primary residence or vacation home out of your estate. You place it in trust but retain the right to live there for a set number of years. After the term expires, you presumably move to Florida. But you can also elect to rent the house as long as you like. You must survive the original term, though, or the house gets thrown back into your estate. The advantage: when you set up the trust, it amounts to a gift at discounted value. A $1 million house in a 10-year QPRT...
...away assets at a discount, making your annual gifts or lifetime exclusion go further. A typical example would have you place shares of a family-owned business in the partnership and then give away shares of the partnership. But flps can hold any asset, including publicly traded shares. Just retain full control of the partnership with sole discretion over when to sell any assets held by the partnership. The irs then discounts the value of the assets in the partnership by up to 40%, as they are illiquid to the general partners. In this way, a married couple could gift...