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...growing number of Americans are hitting the road to dodge taxes, and the IRS can't touch them. Why? Far from being on the lam, these tax-wise migrants are changing addresses to take advantage of generous tax laws that apply to the sale of a primary residence. Couples can exclude as much as $500,000 of gain ($250,000 for singles) when selling any house they've lived in for at least two of the previous five years. Thanks to a torrid real estate market, tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of upscale homeowners now sit atop such fat gains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beating the Mansion Tax | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...fair and efficient market, but the credibility of soundbite-dishing analysts is not. During the dot-com gold rush, a lot of investors bet a lot of money on analysts whose opinions turned out to be rubbish. Now we're in the head-shaking phase, where everyone's gotten wise and the hidden-agenda company analysts of the late '90s are down in financial history with snake-oil salesmen. Should anyone have been too surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Merrill Lynch Scratches the Surface | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

...Washington Post's editorial page, died a couple of years ago. She left behind a nearly completed book called WASHINGTON, which has now been published by PublicAffairs. WASHINGTON is Greenfield's summing up of political and journalistic life in the city she observed with an eye that was wise, elegant, and astringent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitol Hill High | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

Already, HLS has been on the cutting edge of animal rights law. Its first course regarding animal rights was offered during the Spring 2000 semester. The course was taught by Prof. Steven M. Wise, who authored “Rattling the Cage,” widely considered the ‘bible’ of the animal rights movement...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barker Gives HLS $500,000 Gift | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...thing during the campaign tended to think a year was a safe minimum learning-to-fly-solo period - for what that's worth - but Bush has been in office five months now, and his feet are pretty wet. And it's not as if Cheney is the only wise old government hand left in this Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Implications, Medical and Political, of Cheney's Heart Troubles | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

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