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Brad Pitt Back in Oscar Race with Witty, Bloody "Killing Them Softly"
When did become such a good actor? He nailed it in ?Moneyball? and got an Oscar nomination. As Cogan, a literate hit man in Andrew Dominick?s ?Killing Them Softly,? he?s magic, a real old fashioned leading man who?s integrated character actor choices into his repetoire. Cogan doesn?t even come into the movie right away; he?s ...
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Marriage-Saving Rules for Couples Working from Home
Earlier this month Hitched received a letter from a wife who works from home and asked for our help. After 31 years of marriage, she is struggling with her husband?s lack of respect for her workspace. He also began working from home and moved his computer into her office and now regularly interrupts her. The ...
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SpaceX Launches With 15 Dreams Onboard
SpaceX successfully launched the first commercial rocket today. The Falcon 9 rocket along with the Dragon capsule is loaded with the hopes and dreams of hundreds of students around the USA. The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP), launched June 2010 by the??National Center for Earth and Space Science (NCESSE)??in partnership with??NanoRacks, LLC, is an important ...
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IBM STUDY: If You Don't Have a SOCIAL CEO, You're Going to be Less Competitive
The list of the world's CEOs regularly includes celebrities, billionaires, big egos, risk takers, and failures. What it does not include are social media experts; but that's about to change. When IBM (NYSE: IBM) conducted its study of 1709 CEOs around the world, they found only 16% of them participating in social media. But their ...
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Disability Pay: Some Taxable, Some Tax-Free
What is taxed and what isn't can be confusing. When you combine several tax rules, the complexity gets worse. That's what happened to Shannon Fernandez when, after her divorce, ??she received payments relating to her ex-husband's disability. See??Fernandez v. Commissioner. Her husband had been receiving the payments tax-free since 1993 after being disabled while working ...
