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Here's some advice to the twixters from a geezer who joined the military at 17, was raising a family at 21, worked hard days, studied hard nights and built a gratifying life: self-absorption keeps one a child, and commitment to something greater than oneself leads to adulthood. A person has too many choices only if they become excuses for failing to choose, commit and grow. Select a path, and follow it diligently. Then you won't have to seek fulfillment; it will find...
...invested among a limited number of government-selected funds. The account could not be spent or borrowed against until retirement. At retirement, you would still get a traditional Social Security check, but it would be smaller, reflecting your diminished contribution to the system. You would also be required to commit a portion of your personal account to an annuity-to trade in the assets for a guaranteed monthly payment for the rest of your life. Your annuity commitment would have to be large enough that the monthly proceeds plus your Social Security check would keep you at least above...
...GOING TO GET OUT OF IT? Dialogue should continue. Accusing Libya of being a country that sponsors terrorism is a very dangerous thing. That has psychological repercussions. Libya could argue, "Since I am still on the terrorist list, why not commit terrorism, which I am accused of anyway? Why should I pay the price without getting something in return...
...need to fill air time in a slow news week, was the enigma of Carson. Millions saw and liked him 150 times a year, yet he steadfastly hoarded the essence of his personality. "If the conversation edges toward areas in which he feels ill at ease or unwilling to commit himself," wrote Kenneth Tynan, who interviewed Carson for a 1977 New Yorker profile reprinted in the book Show People, "burglar alarms are triggered off, defensive reflexes rise around him like an invisible stockade, and you hear the distant baying of guard dogs...
Minkow knows how to play that gig. He went undercover after getting a call from a prospective investor in a pair of Southern California investment schemes and, posing as someone with extra cash to commit, found enough evidence to allow the Securities and Exchange Commission to shutter the firms in November. They allegedly had conned nearly $26 million from more than 1,200 people, largely by targeting church-affiliated African Americans. In 2003 he managed to shut down another scheme, a California operation that targeted retirement funds worth $813 million. "Barry has a lot of insight into the many ways...