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...confusion, distrust and noncompliance. Rather than have one unified scheme, for example, Japan has three, categorized by employment status. Salaried employees and public servants are enrolled automatically, but the self-employed have to fill out forms in order to join. And those designated as "self-employed" include a grab bag of illogical participants, including some housewives, students and, oddest of all, Diet members. Although paying into the pension pool of the self-employed is technically mandatory, it is, in practice, voluntary. So many either simply decide not to pay or accidentally neglect to do so because they don't know...
...CULTURAL ICON. DO YOU FEEL AS IF YOU'VE FINALLY GOT SOME RESPECT? Maybe other people feel that way. I don't picture myself as anything. I could never be a big shot. When I go into a hotel and a bellhop grabs my bag, I feel like I should be carrying it. I'm just one of the masses. I know that people like me, but I don't lay it on so much...
Like many others, Dartboard imagines she can go undetected—slipping past security at the front door is always easy as pie. Scrumptious treats strategically placed in large pockets or at the bottom of Dartboard’s bag are hardly conspicuous. Some consider it an art; for Dartboard, it’s just survival skills at their best...
...just keep everything very straight forward,” Kang said. “It was against Navy in particular when things slowed down in the last half of the race. [We’ve got to] not to try to pull any tricks out of the bag or anything...
...British kids numbed by strong lager, joints and junk food. Skinner is unfazed by the attention; as he sees off an El País reporter and moves tables for a change of scene in his local south London pub, he explains that this album has been in the bag for ages. "It's like doing your homework on the night you're given it. It's a beautiful thing." After a moment's reflection, he admits: "I never managed it at school...