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People respond to incentives, the economists say, and it’s starting to look like they’re right. According to a study released last year by Wojciech Kopczuk and Joel Slemrod, two researchers at the University of Michigan, Americans obey the injunctions of their pocketbooks even when life and death are at stake. The study, which examined changes in the estate tax over the past century, found a statistically significant correlation between the exact timing of death and the relevant tax advantages to the decedent’s estate. In other words, when a reduction...
Ably portrayed by then 13-year-old Matthew O’Leary, his young Fenton is a refreshing answer to the saccharine, doe-eyed countenance of Haley Joel Osment’s innocent personas. Like Osment’s character in The Sixth Sense, Fenton is the subject of a supernatural affliction, but O’Leary’s response is hardened, stoic and fairly riveting for its intensity. After Fenton’s father tells of his divine task, Fenton responds with understandable skepticism that eventually decays into abject panic and hardened frustration as the body count mounts...
...performance in the revival matches the wit or intensity of William Daniels’ original portrayal. It matters that in the second Broadway revival of Cabaret, Alan Cumming delivers the shocking final line of “If You Could See Her” as a harsh whisper, whereas Joel Grey sings it in the original production...
...sounds like a cocktail of such slick Reagan-era synthesizer bands as New Order and the Cure, with a shot of alternative-rock grit tossed in. Singer and keyboardist Todd Baechle, 28; his brother Clark, 21, on drums; keyboardist Jacob Thiele, 22; guitarist Dapose (just Dapose), 22; and bassist Joel Petersen, 27, plan to embark this week on an arena and theater tour with the hugely popular No Doubt, so the MTV audience is in their sights...
...slide. According to the American Furniture Manufacturers Association, shipments dropped 10% last year, to $23 billion. Chains such as Montgomery Ward, Heilig-Meyers and Sears Homelife went bust, flooding the market with discounted furniture. "It was as bad an industry downturn as we've experienced in our careers," says Joel Havard, vice president of equity research at BB&T Capital Markets. Amid that wreckage, Mitchell Gold is opening its very first store, a self-contained shop at ABC Carpet & Home, the upscale New York City clearinghouse for fine housewares of every kind...