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...sports like skiing and fishing, even bigger bargains can be found in retirement-friendly parts of the Deep South, the Rockies and the Southwest. In honky-tonk Branson, Mo., the heart of the Ozarks, $120,000 will buy you a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house. By contrast, the same amount would be good for only a 20% down payment on a four-bedroom house in tony Westchester County...
...year, the minimum age for full benefits will start its jump from 65 to 66. Beginning in 2003, the age at which full benefits are payable will gradually increase to 67. You can start tapping into your account as early as age 62, but that will reduce forever the amount of your monthly benefits. Also, half your Social Security benefits will be taxed if you and your spouse earn more than a certain amount each year, currently $32,000. Get a personal earnings and benefit estimate statement from Social Security by calling...
...politics went wrong, friendships might die unpleasant deaths. In Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (Free Press; 244 pages; $25), Podhoretz, 69, has set down a fierce and gossipy record of his expired relationships. His stories amount to a personal diary of American political ideas from the end of World War II to the present...
...first I thought the cover story on the amount of homework youngsters have was a joke [EDUCATION, Jan. 25], but I realized it was sad but true. Many private and parochial schools assign three hours of homework a night. Now I see that some public school students are whining about three hours of homework a week! How do they ever hope to compete for entrance to colleges and universities? Let's quit dumbing down America and face the reality that one has to work, and work hard, to achieve the things that are truly meaningful. GWEN GANGER Los Angeles...
...anyparticular mini-conflict but also to the actors,who as a group were much better with movement andmelodramatic expressions of emotion than withsubtle feeling and delivery. Matt MacInnis '02(playing Jason Rosner) is a very good andconvincing screamer; Henley-Cohn is a fine stagepresence, and has a considerable amount of(misplaced, in this play) sex appeal; and JayChaffin '00 (as the rebellious Elliot Dachs, butreminiscent of nobody more than Seinfeld's George)has a very good sense of comic timing, despite atiresome tendency to yell a great deal more thannecessary...