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...Visitors who make a minimum $50 donation to the school will have their names carved - like recent visitor Donna Karan's - on one of 2,630 bamboo poles used to construct Heart of School, a central library and meeting facility. At 60 ft. tall (18 m), it will be one of the world's largest all-bamboo buildings when completed in March...
...would be nice to think the magnitude of the problems facing the nation would lead to a minimum of puerile contentiousness, but vile still seems to be the default position for some of Obama's noisier detractors - "Obama Flubs the Oath" was the inaccurate headline greeting the new President on the Drudge Report. Too many of us in the media remain reluctant "to set aside childish things." Happily, though, our new President seems to have an honest predilection for treating his opponents with respect. He seems intent on hearing their points of view and arguing, decorously, with them - that...
There's a catch in write-offs, however. Because of his high income, Geithner will most likely run afoul of the dreaded alternative minimum tax (AMT). Among other things, the AMT applies to people who would be able to use deductions to reduce a large portion of their federal income tax. The idea of the AMT is to make sure wealthier types pay their fair share. State income taxes and property taxes are federal-income-tax deductions. And since Geithner pays nearly $45,000 in those two taxes, he most certainly would be caught by the AMT. When...
...that way. Last month, hundreds of them protested forced-leave policies in front of the Council of Labor Affairs in Taipei. Since then, the council, a government agency, has required employers to amend employee contracts to reflect the reduced hours and to guarantee that income stays above minimum wage for workers facing severe cuts...
...Andrew Wyeth's skills as a draughtsman - and maybe also as a showman - are owed to his boisterous, demanding father. But the quiet and spareness of his pictures, the sense of longing and abandonment, of having exacted the maximum effect from the minimum means, may be a reaction against his father's swashbuckling art. His father also marked Wyeth's life strongly in one other way. In 1945 the elder Wyeth, along with his 4-year-old grandson by Andrew's brother Nat, was killed when his car stalled on a railroad track. It was an event that Wyeth...