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...theologians. Please do your readers a favor. In the future, assign such articles to born-again, Bible-believing Christians. There are more than enough other subjects with which skeptics, agnostics and even atheists can entertain your readers. Enoch Lim Petaling Jaya, Malaysia The Dirtiest Trick Being a Ukrainian citizen I follow the events of my country even living in the U.S. And I try to follow and analyze the Western media publications related to my country. While I think that Time Europe's "The Dirtiest Trick" article [Dec. 20] in general expresses a fair and objective view on the matter...
...country was out of work, and no one was poorer than the elderly. "We can never insure 100% of the population against 100% of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age," F.D.R. said. At the end of 2004, about 48 million Americans--not just retired workers but also the disabled and the spouses and children of deceased workers--drew $41.5 billion a month in benefits. Even...
Though the privatization of Social Security would be a major coup for Wall Street and the banking firms who would maintain the personal accounts, the American citizen is left with a riskier retirement outlook from a system that’s very name heralds its aversion to risk. Social Security is in need of a facelift, not a burial. Placing the system on stronger footing is necessary and can be accomplished by a gradual increase of the retirement age to 70 to reflect the reality of longer life expectancies. While private retirement accounts should have a place in any individual?...
Richard Max Strahan calls himself a “citizen attorney general.” Without a lawyer, he files rounds of lawsuits against the government to press for environmental causes. The New York Times says the activist has been arrested 130 times in his fight to save whales, while the Boston Globe says he inspired a big-screen movie character played by Joe Pesci in the Harvard-based film “With Honors...
...hard to speak about his style, which is known for having every frame look like a painting. He explains his process as driven simply by instinct, though he does admit to finding inspiration in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, two classics by notoriously perfectionist auteurs...