5. Estate Tax, also known as a "death tax", has remained fairly steady. If a taxpayer passed away in 2012, the exclusion for their estate is $5,120,000.The longest singleboat trip links Geneva with Lausanne in about four hours, but you can connect in Lausanne for the east end of the lake. Some of its boats are paddlewheelers. A typical fare is ?37 (about $49) roundtrip from Geneva to Lausanne.

Rick Perry justice: A couple of local lawyers who worked on a Texas death penalty appeal say the Lone Star governor and GOP presidential candidate should not sleep so well at night based on their experience. Tom Johnson and Greg Mertz say their defendant got horrid initial counsel, was victimized by inconsistent police dealmaking and after 11 years of appeals, gave up and was executed. (Disclaimer: The attorneys work at my wife's firm.).While Johnson spent much of his time dancing and stutterstepping in the backfield while futilely looking for daylight, Peterson just kept p