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Where Rutland is at this point in her life--49 with grown children, money to spend and visions of a full life ahead of her--is the same point being reached by an unprecedented number of magazine readers. As the baby-boom generation rumbles toward retirement age, publishers are scrambling to follow it. Titles like Rolling Stone and Ramparts, founded to document the boomers' rebellious youth, long ago yielded coffee-table space to Money and Parenting, with their grownup concerns. Now at least two new magazines--Meredith Corp.'s More and AARP's My Generation--claim they have figured...
...President's party usually faces. But they also know G.O.P. candidates tend to suffer whenever the debate turns to issues affecting people at or approaching retirement age. That group votes more dependably than any other, especially in off-year elections, and now includes the leading edge of the baby boom, 76 million strong. Democrats are well practiced at exploiting the group's fears. In 1982 the party stoked anxiety about Social Security reform and picked up 26 seats in the House; in 1986 the same issue toppled the G.O.P. majority that Ronald Reagan had swept into the Senate...
...That's assuming the deal goes through. In the wake of the Enron debacle, questions are being raised about Global Crossing's aggressive accounting practices. And even if a bankruptcy judge approves the bailout, it could take another dotcom boom for the investment to pan out. Li, however, doesn't mind taking big risks for big rewards...
...Daschle, a key player in shaping the Democrats' messages, accused George Bush of "Enronizing the budget." Daschle didn't use the "Enron" word earlier this week when he issued his statement on the Bush budget. But he made it clear that Democrats planned to pounce on the baby-boom fears that their government retirement savings could vanish like Enron's 401K did. "The biggest victims" of the Bush budget, Daschle charged, "are people who depend on the government for their retirement security...
Summers also mentioned what is becoming an increasingly prevalent theme in his speeches—his vision for Boston as a new Silicon Valley for biomedical research. Summers said he sees Harvard as the driving force behind this development, mirroring the role Stanford played in the California boom...