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While every uncounted person means a loss of $3,000 in federal aid to the city, the number one million is not significant. According to census council member and independent demography consultant Peggy Backer, "If the population is six digits or seven, it doesn't change anything...
...WORST NEWS OF THE DAY] A tornado strikes Salt Lake City, Utah, leaving at least one person dead and more than 60 injured...
...worth noting that 97% of the population will never owe a dime in estate tax. The lifetime exemption this year and next is $675,000 per person and goes to $1 million in 2006. Married couples can easily shelter twice that amount--sums most people only dream of. Meanwhile, virtually everyone can benefit from a written will, a living will and a durable power of attorney. With each, the idea is to keep potential disputes out of court, where legal costs eat into your heirs' good fortune...
...best part of Kanfer's book is devoted to these later years, from You Bet Your Life through the great man's canonization in the '60s and finally into the horrifying battle over his property and his person waged between Groucho's children and the confused old man's last inamorata, Erin Fleming (he was 80; she was roughly 30). Kanfer excels in these saddest decades not because he's engaged in the black art of what Joyce Carol Oates calls "pathography," but because this is the period he can document most intimately through interviews with surviving witnesses. Necessarily, earlier...
What exactly is the moral meaning of a crowd? Does a crowd have claims to legitimacy? Does it have more political significance than, say, a Zogby poll? If one person expresses a strong opinion on a subject, does the opinion become 200,000 times more valid if 200,000 people gather in the same place to proclaim...