Federal Income Taxation of Trusts & Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series)

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The core of this book consists of the provisions of "Subchapter J," the relevant portion of the Internal Revenue Code (sections 641 through 692), and its first priority is to give readers an understanding of those provisions and how they work. This text takes four distinct, but integrated, approaches. At the beginning of each section, the book presents assignments of carefully selected provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations. Following are one or more precedents (cases or rulings) dealing with the topic at hand accompanied by textual material that amplifies the topic by further analysis of the primary precedent(s), presentation of other precedents, or discussion of subsequent developments. Finally, numerous problems, where appropriate, allow the reader to apply the material to actual fact patterns.

The book is ideal for use in courses dealing with federal income taxation of trusts and estates. Those who wish to pursue tax policy will find ample material with which to work.

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The dark reality of business expressed in humor.......2005-05-09

Even business has its lighter side and it is captured in these cartoons. While they are very funny, there is a dark side of reality to many of them. For example, the woman in a bar who says to another patron, "We finally found the American dream by working for the Japanese in Mexico." Or the two suits walking down the street where one says, "Let's make sure that if there's a return to morality, we get a piece of the action." Finally, there is the especially biting, "Our factories are all out of the country. All we produce here are very rich executives."
In the long run, we are all dead, but at least we can have some chuckles along the way. Although sometimes the humor is dark, there are a lot of laughs in this book.

Excellent.......2001-07-15

A picture is worth a thousand words. That's literally true with the cartoons in this book. It is a nice collection item for book lovers, nice to have it in the waiting room or drawing rooms.

Too Much "Pepper . . . and Salt" and Not Enough Other Spices.......2000-07-24

Having recently read the New Yorker's books of business and money cartoons, I must admit that I was disappointed in this book. Although I read "Pepper . . . and Salt" (the Journal's daily cartoon feature on the op-ed pages since 1950) almost every week day in the Journal, the cartoons are simply a lot better on the same subject in the New Yorker.

First, almost anyone will find at least some of these cartoons to be overtly sexist. Even if we grant that public attitudes may have been different when these cartoons first came out, that doesn't make it a good idea to run these kinds of cartoons now. One that offended me was of a woman director asking why an acquisition couldn't be returned if it didn't work out. It certainly is all right to make fun of white males (it's good for the soul), but at a time when women are having trouble achieving equal opportunity in the workplace humor needs to be carefully considered. There are some pro-women cartoons, so don't let me give you the impression that the book is all one way.

The second reason I found these cartoons wanting is that the reproductions were not very crisp. They seemed almost blurred in the copy I read.

The third failing related to a lack of consistenly high quality wit. A few cartoons were first rate, and the others were not. The introductory essays were also not especially witty, just historical perspectives on the cartoons.

Here are a few of my favorites among the cartoons to give you a sense of what is good in the book:

1950's: (1) A man stands between the garage door and the car holding his golf clubs, next to the back fins of a large automobile. Speaking to a woman driver he says, "Whatever you do -- don't back up."

(2) Woman to man, "Mr. Clamwell has been expecting you. He left."

(3) Two men looking into a brokerage firm window, "I'm always happy when the market goes down. Then I feel pretty good about the stocks I didn't buy with the money I don't have."

1960s: (4) Man to another man while driving a car, "I'm getting to be a nervous wreck, waiting for something defective to show up."

(5) Boss to man at 5:15, "No hurry on this Wilberg -- take all weekend if necessary."

(6) TV announcer, "In New York today, two conglomerates gobbled each other up and disappeared without a trace."

(7) Woman coming into VP Sales office carrying her belongings to man packing his, "And to think all these years you've worried about some boy wonder taking over your job."

(8) Secretary to boss while she holds a steno pad, "I know you want me to correct your spelling and punctuation, but what about your misconceptions?"

1970s: (9) Waiter to two men, "And what will you gentlemen be writing off this evening?"

(10) Man to assistant, "Ms. Ryan, send me in a scapegoat."

1980s: (11) "Stanley, just in case the takeover bid succeeds --here is your poison pill."

(12) Children to elderly man, "Grandfather, tell us again what you sold short in 1929."

1990s: (13) TV announcer, "Family values rallied today, despite staunch Hollywood opposition."

(14) Dog in hedge to dog in business suit on side walk, "Could I interest you in a hedge fund?" (15) Woman to man, "Why must we always take the same two weeks as Alan Greenspan?"

Your taste probably differs from mine. With selective reading, you can still have a lot of good chuckles.

Use the humor here to locate your own misconception and disbelief stalls.

Good chuckles on the business of life.......2000-03-30

This cartoon collection makes a good coffee-table book or gift. Organized by decade from the Fifties through the Nineties, the cartoons can be timeless or topical. Humor that brings back memories of changes in our society (women moving into the workplace, merger mania, stock market fluctuations) puts life in perspective and gives a chuckle every page.

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The Wall Street Journal Portfolio of Golf Cartoons

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Charles Preston
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The Wall Street Journal Portfolio of Golf Cartoons is a delightful collection of the funniest cartoons about golf published in the nation's premier business and financial daily.

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An entertaining collection of 101 quintessential places, people, events, customs, lingo, and eats that help define the personality of the Sunflower State.

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Over the last twenty-five years, the field of cinema studies has offered a dramatic reassessment of the history of film in general and of Hollywood in particular. Writers have drawn on the methodologies of a number of disciplines--literary criticism, sociology, psychology, women's studies, and minority and gay studies--to deepen our understanding of motion pictures, the film industry, and movie theater audiences.

In Hollywood's High Noon, noted film historian Thomas Cripps offers a lively narrative history of Hollywood's classical age that brings the insights of recent scholarship to students and general readers. From its origin during the First World War to the beginning of its decline in the 1950s, Cripps writes, Hollywood operated as did other American industries: movies were created by a rational production system, regulated by both government and privately organized interests, and subject to the whims of a fickle marketplace. Yet these films did offer consumers something unique: in darkened movie palaces across the country,audiences projected themselves--their hopes and ideas -- onto silver screens, profoundly mediating their reception of Hollywood's flickering images.

Beginning with turn-of-the-century moving-picture pioneer Thomas Edison, Cripps traces the invention of Hollywood and the development of the studio system. He explores the movie-going experience, the struggle for social control over the movies through censorship, the impact of sound on the style and content of films, alternatives to Hollywood's oligopoly including "race" films and documentaries, the paradoxical predictability and subversive creativity of genre pictures, and Hollywood's self-proclaimed "shining moment" during the Second World War. Cripps concludes with a discussion of the collapse of the studio system after the war, due in equal parts to suburbanization, the emergence of television, and government anti-trust action.

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A Good Start at Exploring the History of the Film Industy.......2004-06-11

Moviemaking before the latter 1950s and the rise of the television has been the subject of numerous studies. This book explores the rise of the film industry, concentrating on the experience in Hollywood, and offering an analysis of the changes in the industry wrought by technology (sound pictures, color, cinemascope), business (the studio system, contract players, star power, vertical integration), and culture (the meaning of films, the experience of the viewer).

Cripps does an excellent job demonstrating the rise of the Hollywood oligopoly, and the alternatives that arose to that system but could never quite break its control. He expends considerable effort discussing various genres that arose before World War II, especially westerns and gangster films.

The high point of Hollywood, at least according to many in the industry, was its effort in World War II to make films that were both entertaining and helpful to the war effort. Cripps discusses this activity from the Anglophillic "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939) through "Casablanca" (1942) to John Ford's semi-documentaries such as "They Were Expendable" (1945), as well as a host of other works. He also spends considerable effort unpacking the relationship of Hollywood to the Office of War Information (OWI) and finds that the Hollywood moguls, who had spent their careers answering to their moneyed overlords in New York, had little trouble answering to OWI communicators in Washington.

Cripps concludes the book with a discussion of the collapse of the studio system after World War II. He explains that this took place because of several key issues. First, the suburbanization of America meant that moviegoers abandoned their downtown theaters and the current metroplexes did not emerge until much later. Second, the sudden rise in family development, sparking the advent of the baby boom, meant that these new families sought entertainment that was more private than the public gathering of the theater. Third, television arose and this gave these new families entertainment that they could partake of together in their homes. Finally, government antitrust action broke apart the vertical integration that had dominated in the prewar era.

Cripps also discusses the experience of the moviegoer in the theater throughout the first half of the twentieth century. He finds that the shared experience of sitting with others in a darkened theater partaking of exotic adventures, romances, historical and futuristic times, and the like provided a unique experience unavailable anywhere else. This experience profoundly affected how people embraced the movies as a central part of modern culture. Also overlaying the entire book is the issue of film censorship. The industry both self-regulated itself and had overseers who regulated it to create film that reinforced specific cultural and national values while discouraging mindsets and actions that went against the status quo.

This is a very interesting book and one that I would recommend for those seeking to understanding this critical institution in twentieth century America.

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Hollywood's High Noon - Moviemaking & Society Before Television
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High Noon; The clash of Old and New Hollywood, Part Four.: An article from: The Weekly Standard
Brian C. Anderson
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This digital document is an article from The Weekly Standard, published by Thomson Gale on November 27, 2006. The length of the article is 2354 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Duplicate Bridge Flipper (Master Bridge)
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Prima Keeps You ALIVE

* Expert lessons take you from the basics to the advanced techniques.
* Full move lists for all characters!
* The Art of Fighting--strategies to bring your fighting skills to a whole new level.
* Extensive character analysis: best juggles, best/worst match-ups, offensive and defensive strategies.
* Online play info to get you into the worldwide community, and keep you competitive!

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Avoid purchasing this DOA4 game guide.......2006-03-19

I disregarded the previous review by LB on January 25th and i sorely regret it. This game guide does not tell you how to counter properly, guard breaks, and character strategies. On the back cover it says it shows you the best/worst match-ups but its nowhere to be found. Doesnt give you any tag combos at all, or online play instructions.

PS For goodness sake, learn to play a character other than Ryu Hayabusa, Jan Lee or Brad Wong. Everyone plays these characters online.

Don't waste your money.......2006-01-26

The back cover of the guide promisses "expert lessons". Where? It's just more general suggestions. I already know I need to learn the counter system to be effective at this game. The booklet with the game tells me that. HOW PRIMA? HOW DO I DO IT? There's no lesson. There's no how to. I'm still looking for the promised "gaurd breaks" list in the "character strategies" section. Sounds like it's something I'd really like to try. This guide makes it seem like an effective tool. Too bad that other then a general description of what a guard break will do for me, there's no actual instruction on the technique.

Great I know all the character moves that you can't possibly hope to accomplish while the computer has you in a 99999 punch juggle. I can get that info for free on gamefaq.com. I was actually better as a button masher at this game than I am armed with this worthless guide.

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