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...Boston area for the holidays with no money and nothing to do. A friend suggests that she play in the street for change. "Ahhh, I don't know," Tracy Chapman says. But soon she is standing in Harvard Square, in the falling snow, her guitar in her hand, her guitar case at her feet. She sings old blues songs and songs she learned in her enthnomusicology classes and some original compositions. "Poor people gonna rise up/And get their share," she sings. "Poor people gonna rise up/ And take what's theirs...
...nearly 23 million, you could almost hear the phones ringing across America Tuesday night as viewers uttered the eternal phrase "You will not freaking believe what's on Fox." Fifty women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft. There was a "beachwear contest," because, host Jay Thomas rationalized, Mr. Moneybags wanted his lady love to be "as comfortable on the beach...
Taking possession of employer shares can cut your tax bill. When you eventually sell, the profit is taxed as a capital gain at 20% for most people. An IRA distribution, on the other hand, is taxed as income--at up to 39.6%. Basic math, gang. Here are questions from my mail and answers, with an assist from Ed Slott, editor of Ed Slott's IRA Advisor. Ed has more on his website at irahelp.com To read my earlier column, see time.com/personal...
...compounds the moral squalor of the operation. In their off-hours the young hustlers watch Glengarry Glen Ross to learn the tricks of their trade and Wall Street to justify it. But they don't really need audio-visual education. Not when they have Jim Young so close at hand. He's their recruiter, mentor, goad and ideal. He's played by Ben Affleck, and the role may be the best thing Affleck has ever done--so abusive, yet so coldly glamorous in his amorality...
...mink and sable. Comfortable even when the temperature hits -40[degrees]F, Fomenko can glide through the deep snow like a cat, carefully placing one foot in front of the other, so his footprints disappear in the steps of his prey. Now and then he stops, sable hat in hand, to do what he does best: listen to the forest. "When you live alone in the taiga for months," he says, "you get to know all the animals in these woods." Over the years he increasingly knew that excessive hunting, beyond what was authorized by the government, was taking...