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SMOKING BREAK The IRS apparently figures that people who live longer pay taxes longer. That might explain why the agency will now allow smokers to deduct the unreimbursed cost of antismoking programs or prescription drugs as a medical expense on their returns--as long as total medical costs exceed 7.5% of gross income. (Nicotine patches and gum don't count.) To make a claim from previous years, file a 1040X amended return...
Performance at a high level in any sport is to exceed the ordinary human scale. But Pele's performance transcended that of the ordinary star by as much as the star exceeds ordinary performance. He scored an average of a goal in every international game he played--the equivalent of a baseball player's hitting a home run in every World Series game over 15 years. Between 1956 and 1974, Pele scored a total of 1,220 goals--not unlike hitting an average of 70 home runs every year for a decade and a half...
...Ciollo described Muoio as a warrior that finished well and finished where he wasn't necessarily supposed to. "He always seemed to exceed expectations," Ciollo said...
...sheer amount of money Rudenstine has been able to raise stands as his other major achievement as president. With six months remaining, the University expects to exceed its goal by at least $100 million...
...maintain excellence is hard. To exceed it is even harder...