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...University dipped into its swollen coffers yesterday, cementing its plans for future development across the Charles River with a $151 million bid for 48 acres of additional land in Allston...
IRAs are emerging as the most important part of estate planning. At retirement, many baby boomers will have worked most of their lives for employers with 401(k) plans or similar tax-deferred programs like Keoghs and 403(b)s--many swollen from a long bull market. Typically, the proceeds from such plans get rolled into IRAs when you change jobs or retire. In many cases, IRAs account for 60% to 80% of an estate...
...Thursday, Edith Zierer was waiting for him. Fifty-five years ago, recently liberated from a Nazi work camp, the 14-year-old girl had walked as far as she could toward Krakow and then had lain down, expecting to die of exhaustion. "I was with swollen feet and with nothing to continue in my heart," she recalled. Suddenly a priest [actually a seminarian] appeared, dressed in brown, "strong and tall and very handsome...It was as if someone from the heavens had been sent down to me." He brought her tea, bread and cheese, then carried her on his back...
...Swollen Cities...
...William Wordsworth (whose brooding peregrinations of the Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days...