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To: tejek who wrote (276319)	2/24/2006 1:48:53 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588348

I give you three different sources, one of which is the CIA, and that's your conclusion. I'll ask the Iranian guy at work on Sunday, and his answer means a lot more to me than your link. We shall see, I just find it near impossible to believe that 1 in 6 people here are Iranian. The normal split we get is 15%-20% each for UAE nationals, Philippinoes, Indians, Pakistanis 5% Western 15% other Arab+African Your numbers are the first I've heard of with a big Iranian %, so I'll ask the Iranian, and then we'll see. If we could bet, I would wager you a lot he'll answer closer to 1% than to 17%, and I would give you 10 to 1 he will say less than 25%. But maybe he hasn't read your link.....

To: tejek who wrote (276319)	2/24/2006 5:02:14 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1588348

"Sadly, it's another case of a rich man manipulating charity for his own benefit," said Marcus Owens, a lawyer who formerly headed the division of the I.R.S. that oversees tax-exempt groups nytimes.com At the end of the year, he [Mr. Pickens] gave $165 million to a tiny charity set up to benefit the golf program at Oklahoma State University, reaping Mr. Pickens a tax deduction. [But] Records show that the money spent less than an hour on Dec. 30 in the account of the university's charity, O.S.U. Cowboy Golf Inc., before it was invested in a hedge fund controlled by Mr. Pickens, BP Capital Management. Mr. Pickens was able to take advantage of a provision in Hurricane Katrina relief legislation that allowed him a deduction for a charitable gift equal to 100 percent of his adjusted gross income, double the normal limit of 50 percent. If he does not have that much income in 2005, he can carry the deduction into future years.