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Lurking behind the accounting battle is an even hotter argument about whether private investment accounts are an idea whose time has come. Bush believes the best way to ensure that boomers have enough money for retirement is to allow them to divert about a sixth of their payroll taxes into the financial markets in search of higher returns. Most Democrats say such a roll of the dice could create a new generation of aged poor--and the Dow and NASDAQ have recently been acting like Democratic allies. So the party dug in its heels last week, as Senate majority leader...
...voicing what environmental campaigners had long asserted - that Japan uses international aid to "get understanding" in developing nations. In each of the past 10 years, that has amounted to roughly $10 billion. "Japan has clearly had some success in getting countries to join on its side of the argument, and that has changed the balance of the commission somewhat," acknowledged New Zealand's commissioner, Jim McLay. Waiting in the wings and thought likely to join the IWC are Namibia, Gabon and Senegal. "We'll see who shows up next time," said McLay. Those who do show up in Shimonoseki will...
...argument here. "Planet of the Apes" was indeed a fine-looking movie, from the setting to the shots of the apes loping into battle to, well, to Estella Warren and her highly evolved hairdo. That was to be expected from the director of "Scissorhands," "Batman," the even better-looking "Batman Returns," and "Sleepy Hollow." And I?m happy for Burton, whose cachet as one of Hollywood?s bankable directors has been in the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately category since "Mars Attacks," (which I actually liked, but no one else did) - the movie opened to the tune...
...energetic among them will move numbers and points of reference around like shells in a shill game to show racism. In other words, racial profiling is now an "identity" issue like affirmative action, black reparations or even O.J.'s innocence. It is less a real issue than a coded argument over how much racism exists in society today. We argue these issues fiercely--make a culture war around them--because the moral authority of both the left and right political identities hangs in the balance...
...newfound appetite for Japanese players has as much to do with balance sheets as it does ball skills. Having a Japanese player on the squad could yield a club rich revenues in TV broadcast deals and kit sales in Japan. Why else would Bolton sign Nishizawa, goes the argument, after the player had just returned to Japan from an unremarkable spell at Spanish side R.C.D. EspaNyol? And how much playing time will Inamoto get in an Arsenal midfield that already boasts players like Robert Pires and?for now, anyway?Patrick Vieira? When English side West Ham United embarked...