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WHAT ABOUT TAX DEDUCTIONS? Donations to overseas charities aren't deductible. If, however, the group has U.S. operations--and tax-exempt status (you can check at irs.gov see Publication 78)--you're in the clear. Gifts made to tsunami-specific funds by the end of January may be deducted from 2004 taxes. But even a 2005 deduction should make opening your heart--and your wallet-- easier. --With reporting by Carolina A. Miranda and Deirdre...
BEST PUNCH: Reopening a spat that followed a 9/11 benefit, the Fox anchor questioned whether funds from an NBC telethon would go to tsunami relief: "If George Clooney and other stars go on TV and ask you to give, then they had better be involved all the way down the line...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...
Comes the tsunami and we realize to our horror that Nature has merely to shrug, to flick a finger, as it were, and hundreds of thousands of us are broken, entire nations thrown into chaos and grief. It is the ultimate reminder of our common fragility, of just how precarious our species' ridiculously brief sojourn on this earth really...
...mudslides and floods in the U.S. last week or even the Iranian earthquake of 2003, are usually too parochial in their victimization to catch the attention of all humanity. It takes a multicontinental cataclysm--instantaneous, catastrophic, widely spread--to shake the world from its self-absorption. The tsunami that destroyed thousands of lives from Sumatra to Somalia engendered an instant, near-universal outpouring of concern, shared grief and charitable giving. Ronald Reagan once startled the U.N. by suggesting in a speech that humanity would unite and forget its petty divisions if we were attacked from outer space. This elicited widespread...