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...Week Two, Day Four of the Senate debate on campaign finance reform, McCain-Feingold was ready to cross the threshold...
...airlines are planning to launch direct flights from New York to Hong Kong. Estimated time aloft: 15 hours, 40 minutes - one of the world's longest scheduled services. "What are you going to do with people for 16 hours in these conditions?" asks Bor. "There must be a threshold beyond which reasonable, compliant behavior will be challenged." Better fasten your seat belts...
...starvation over the next year, caused by crop failures and the toll exacted by continuous warfare. The government refuses to provide education for females and strips women of any semblance of equality. Apart from a flurry of protest when these issues were first exposed, they quickly faded below the threshold of the world's attention...
...filed under Chapter 7, which allowed them to erase most of their unsecured debts, namely credit card balances. When Bush signs the finished bill - which he will, when the Senate and House are finished reconciling the two near-identical versions - only those who fall below a certain income threshold, or are unemployed, will be able to do so, and then only after they fill out a stack of forms. The rest will have to settle for Chapter 13, which in most states allows a debtor to keep his house but forces some repayment of unsecured debts under a court-approved...
Married couples can leave as much as $1.35 million to heirs tax free. That limit rises to $2 million by 2006. This is no small amount, for sure. But above that threshold Uncle Sam takes a hefty slice. The top marginal rate is 55%. Shouldn't parents with, say, $4 million be able to leave $1 million to each of four children? The savings have already been taxed as income or would be taxed as capital gain when heirs tapped it. Yet the estate tax--essentially, double taxation--virtually precludes the moderately rich from bequeathing financial security. This...