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...withdrawn. When you take out money to pay for college, the earnings are taxed at the student's ordinary income tax rate, which is often lower than the parent's. (If your child skips college, there is a 10% penalty on the earnings.) Another advantage is that the person who sets up the account decides when withdrawals may be made. That differs from a custodial account, whose rules could cause parents to be concerned that their prospective student will use the money for a sporty new car instead of college...
Gore's choice was no more than a political decision to try to use a person with the mantle of Mr. Clean to distract voters from the Clinton-Gore dirt. After denouncing President Clinton but voting against his impeachment, will Lieberman now join Gore in declaring Clinton "one of our greatest Presidents"? That would be real chutzpah. FRANK L. FRABLE Aurora...
...uniform and feeds you porridge. But my experiences have proved otherwise. After wading through three-quarters of the multiple-choice admission test for one cult in L.A., a monitor caught me copying off the guy sitting next to me and threw me out. I was the only person rejected from a cult on the ground of laziness...
What links this string of fatalities? The answer, it turns out, is Iris Chase Griffen--Laura's elder sister, Richard's wife, Aimee's mother. Now in her 80s, Iris realizes that she is the only person left alive who knows the circumstances behind these deaths. Having been warned by her doctor that her heart is weak, the old woman begins, reluctantly, to write down what she remembers: "After all I've done to avoid it, Iris, her mark, however truncated: initials chalked on the sidewalk, or a pirate's X on the map, revealing the beach where the treasure...
Every song on this Canadian singer-songwriter's exceptional U.S. debut album, at some point, is directed at "you," and as you listen along, every second-person reference hits its mark. Harmer's erudite but colloquial lyrics evoke the folksy smarts of the Indigo Girls; when she turns up the volume, her determinedly individualistic style of rock invites comparisons to Liz Phair. This album is like an encounter with an old college chum on the street, all the half-remembered rhythms of friendship coming back with unexpected ease...