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...Mexican crime lord shipping coke and crystal meth to American kids. But its greatest liability may be today's yes-you-can-do-that-on-TV culture. In the wake of R-rated, critically acclaimed and successful cable shows like HBO's The Sopranos and FX's The Shield, network TV has found audiences increasingly blase about sex and violence. This season Jack Bauer killed and decapitated a prisoner on 24, and a helicopter blade lopped off Dr. Romano's arm on E.R., while on Friends, married couple Monica and Chandler got advice on sex positions--from Monica...
...requirements for open competition. After enjoying decades of protectionist policy from Rome, Fiat was not competitive. Its share of the Italian auto market fall from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s. This, says Dallocchio, is the Agnelli he wants his students to ignore: "Fiat always had an important shield from any competition. Agnelli always made sure he had the support of government forces, regardless of party or ideology. It was a major distortion of Fiat's success, and left the company very, very weak when normal market conditions arrived." The boss nevertheless refused to cede control, fending off takeover...
...smart move has long been to hold high-yielding stocks or stock funds in an IRA or 401(k) in order to shield dividends from income tax. But the Bush plan would penalize investors for continuing to do so. How? When you take a distribution from your IRA, you pay income tax on the entire amount. So any dividends paid into an IRA would ultimately become taxable. Yet in a taxable account, dividends would be tax free. Got that? Well there's more, and it makes a mockery of the notion that tax reform makes things simpler...
...smart move has long been to hold high-yielding stocks or stock funds in an IRA or 401(k) in order to shield dividends from income tax. But the Bush plan would penalize investors for continuing to do so. How? When you take a distribution from your IRA, you pay income tax on the entire amount. So any dividends paid into an IRA would ultimately become taxable. Yet in a taxable account, dividends would be tax free. Got that? Well there's more, and it makes a mockery of the notion that tax reform makes things simpler...
Clonaid claims they are keeping the individuals’ identities and whereabouts secret to protect their privacy and shield them from anti-cloning activists...