Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...would be first up. Enacted in 1986 to make sure the rich don't dodge taxes by taking big deductions for such things as investment expenses and second mortgages, this tax now soaks even the middle class. Next year 1% of all tax filers will pay it--double the percentage of a few years ago. Many AMT victims earn well under $100,000 a year. By 2010, 10% of filers will pay the AMT, a complicated tax that effectively takes back deductions for Everyman expenses like state property and income levies and medical care as well as personal exemptions...
What makes his prognosis even more problematic should he take office is that the life of an active Vice President is hectic and not particularly healthy, with all the fast food and heavy state dinners that lubricate the business of government...
...Slick as chicken grease. Hotter than summer asphalt. D'Angelo summoned old ghosts--Jimi and Marvin--and woke up a new artistic spirit in R. and B. Voodoo (Virgin) is a menage a trois of soul, hip-hop and jazz, all tangled up like lovers caught in the act. Even as D'Angelo pays homage to music's past, he proves the future is in good hands...
...WHITE TEETH Zadie Smith's miraculous first novel takes place in a tumultuously multicultural area of London where unlikely friendships and even more unlikely romances have become the rule. Much of the action is comic, but even at their most foolish, Smith's characters display confusions that are both fascinating and ultimately admirable...
...Even as it suffers, America is creating diamonds out of the dirty coal of this election crisis. I have no idea if that's how diamonds are made, but surely America is tough enough to suffer through some bad geological analogies. That's how strong we are. And because of that, we are about to be rewarded. While all of unemployed America spent eight hours watching a Ryder truck filled with ballots travel at the speed limit across Florida, one brave woman in Los Angeles saw that truck as a way to bring joy to this chad-torn country...