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...Boomers will have reached old age, 21.2% of the population will be over 65, compared with 12% today. After a life of jogging, aerobics and Lean Cuisine, they will live longer than any generation ever, but who will support them? Providing pensions, health care and housing for this wrinkled cohort "will be as great a challenge as any the nation has ever faced," state Alan Pifer and Lydia Bronte of the Carnegie Corporation's Aging Society Project. Pifer, 65, predicts one major change: the Boomers will sweep away the tradition of retiring at 65 and continue to play a strong...
Shanties do not address the convictions of Corporation members that their policy is more responsible. Nor do they help give President Derek C. Bok and his cohort a face-saving way out should their convictions ever change...
Then, compromise Israeli style. Likud bloc leader and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir volunteered to switch jobs with his Likud cohort Modai. Negotiator turned money man, and vice versa. Peres will save face by playing tough guy with Modai, Shamir will patch together the coalition until the rotation agreement lands him the premiership this October, Modai will stay in the Cabinet and assume what is said to be his dream job. Everbody's happy. Unless conniving politicos get their way, that...
...from Rancho Rajneesh, tends to confirm that Mr. Sullivan was the subject of an assassination attempt" in 1982. Rajneesh also suggested that misdeeds at the commune were responsible for a 1984 outbreak of salmonella in that area. State health officials dismiss the allegation. Other charges followed: Sheela and her cohort had dug a secret escape tunnel under the commune's 64,000-acre ranch and had bugged numerous residents' quarters, including the guru...
...House Committee, and we said as a joke, 'Why don't we declare [Adams House] a nuclear-free zone?'" Tomlinson explained. "I think it's pretty funny--it's an opportunity to make a political statement and be a little humorous at the same time," added his activist cohort Cohn...