Word: writing
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What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...
Starting this week, Tobias will write a regular column for TIME called "Money Angles," which will appear in the Business section every two or three weeks. Tobias will write primarily about personal investing but will occasionally comment on wider economic and financial issues. Says Business editor Stephen Koepp: "Andy brings a rare combination of irreverence and expertise to these topics. Whenever he troops through the jungles of financial arcana, he always emerges with pithy, practical advice for his readers and unusual insights into the latest financial trends. He skewers the bad deals and scouts out the good ones...
...cost of which to Amex is nil. And the baggage insurance -- well, it would be hard to make a case that this is the kind of insurance protection that privileged Americans should not leave home without, but the offer, as always, was compelling. These guys really know how to write a letter...
...hear the one about George Bush's taxes? The IRS says you can write off part of your home if you use it as a workplace. Looks like there won't be any deductions at the White House this year...
...deal that is at least as unorthodox as Wright's. When Gingrich co-wrote Window of Opportunity in 1984, he formed a limited partnership and gathered $105,000 from 21 conservative supporters to underwrite the project. Window sold only 12,000 copies, but the lost investments turned into tax write-offs for the backers. Gingrich's wife Marianne was paid a salary of $11,500 for her work in helping establish the partnership. Democrats filed a formal complaint about the book deal with the House ethics committee in April; Common Cause joined in last month, and Gingrich expects the issue...