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...Keenen Ivory Wayans, whom you may remember from the early-'90s groundbreaking sketch-comedy series In Living Color, and who has now directed a film called Scary Movie, which opens this week. But before we get to Wayans, we must familiarize you with the film, and there's the rub. Scary Movie had this writer giggling like Beavis on helium, yet it's a raunchy piece of work and not easily described in printable detail...
While just about every taxable estate stands to benefit if the so-called death tax gets buried, the rub of additional capital- gains tax is no trifle. Don't worry. No one's messing with the cap-gains rate: 20% for long-held assets. What's getting deep-sixed is the "step-up" in value of some inherited assets. The step-up may sound arcane, but it's a bedrock of estate planning...
...student groups are spawned at Harvard nearly as often as tourists rub John Harvard's lucky toe. In 1996-1997, when most current seniors arrived on campus, there were 186 student groups officially recognized by the College. Now, there are over...
...office, for instance, should disappear, replaced by wireless systems that zap voice, data and video through the air. Smart materials could make any surface or gadget feel like wood one day and metal the next. Intelligent chairs might conform perfectly to your posture, giving you a much needed back rub in the process. Embedded systems and biometric, body-sensing technology will enable every piece of hardware, from cell phones and PDAs to PCs, to know exactly who you are and where, as well as to communicate with every other piece...
...know if they hit them with [the lamb] or rub it all over them," one audience member admitted...