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Taxpayers wanted, dead or alive Ivy Main With the nation's anti-tax fervor at a high pitch, the time is ripe to consider tax relief for freelance newspaper columnists. Our nation has a long tradition of writers offering their opinions cheaply to anyone who will print them, but these people are under enormous financial pressure as newspapers cut their pay rates. Without tax relief, the American dream of becoming an obnoxious pundit will be out of reach of all but large corporate opinion writers. Are you persuaded? If you are, I have a lot of other tax breaks I'd like to...

How to run a PC without Microsoft apps Man manages seemingly impossible feat By INQUIRER staff: Monday 05 May 2003, 15:40 A READER HAS written to tell us how he's managing his PC and his life without using Microsoft applications. He said he's replaced Microsoft software he used to use with as much third party software as possible. However, he said, there was one additional requirement and that was the software had to be freeware. Here's his list.MEDIAPLAYER winamp 2.x for audio and bsplayer for video. Smaller memory footprint, more features and skinning support. www.winamp.com, www.bsplayer.com.OFFICE Open Office, starts up...