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...suddenly in front of them, and a rookie competing civilization (see Goths, Vandals or Americans) takes over. This may be what is happening to us, though it is odd to think of a civilization based in a perpetual future turning around and shifting gears. Maybe we are looking backward because we are unable to live in the future anymore, because the future comes so fast that we can't look forward to it. Or because one can feel happier in the past by being selective about it. The trouble with memory is remembering too much, but a careful editing...
...Such backward logic didn't resonate with regulators or the financial-services industry not too long ago--before 401(k) plans had become the pillar of many people's retirement security. But Congress and Wall Street long have abided by a simple principle: follow the money. With so much nesting in 401(k) plans, two new initiatives aim to commingle plan administration with sorely needed advice. This is groundbreaking stuff. I'm talking not about generic investment education, like the flyers you get in your statement, but personal, account- and fund-specific suggestions...
...Such backward logic didn't resonate with regulators or the financial-services industry not too long ago--before 401(k) plans had become the pillar of many people's retirement security. But Congress and Wall Street long have abided by a simple principle: follow the money. With so much nesting in 401(k) plans, two new initiatives aim to commingle plan administration with sorely needed advice. This is groundbreaking stuff. I'm talking not about generic investment education, like the flyers you get in your statement, but personal, account- and fund-specific suggestions...
...lyricist Jason Robert Brown manages something just as hard; he turns a modest, 80-minute, two-character musical into a richly satisfying emotional journey. It starts with a narrative gimmick. A man and woman tell the story, in alternating musical numbers, of their five-year relationship. She tells it backward in time; he tells it forward. She begins at the rueful end of a marriage and moves toward the love-struck beginning. He opens as a giddy guy going on a date and winds up the betrayer...
...Sorbonne. He eliminated his twang in favor of a precise, nearly British cadence, his Lone Star patois giving way to a flash, mockingly hip mixture of jazz lingo, eccentric abbreviations of names (as in "Sam" Beckett and "tip-top Tenn" Williams), the errant French phrase, and the occasional dip backward into down-home aphorisms...