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...trillion that the tax would bring in over the next 10 years, something sacred had to go, and that's where mortgage deductions come in. Of course, not extending the recent tax cuts due to expire by 2010 (capital gains, estate, child credit) would do the same trick, economists say. But under the President's orders, that option was off-limits...
...three minutes and 19 seconds of equine magic. By taking the 3,200-m Melbourne Cup in 2003 and 2004, Makybe had become one of just five dual winners in the 144-year history of Australia's best-loved horse race. None had managed the elusive hat trick. So on Nov. 1 the 106,480 people at the Flemington track (and around 10 million Australian television viewers), many of them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn...
...that very flexibility--that multiplicity of possible rewards--that makes dreaming big dreams and pursuing big goals worth all the bother. Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin. The trick, as any good speculator will tell you, is recognizing the riches when they come your...
...media streams, it also taps into the alienation created by such fracturing. The secret appeal of these multiple storylines lies in their ultimate interconnectedness. They provide a sort of existential "happy ending" where everything that seems to be unrelated and isolated proves to be part of some grand scheme. Tricked follows this fantasy to the letter. Eventually all the characters end up in the same place at the same time in a violent climax. But, although these narratives drive their characters to a single point in space and time, they never seem to converge thematically. Where the rain of frogs...
...Although somewhat flawed, Alex Robinson's Tricked still has plenty to recommend it as an enjoyable read. Stocked with some memorable characters and drawn in a polished style, the cleverly interwoven tales stay compelling over the book's unusually extended course. Such an accomplishment is no easy trick...