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...been warning of our pending financial crisis--the burden of Social Security and health care for our largest generation on the shoulders of a diminishing proportion of workers. "We're creating our own fiscal catastrophe," Kotlikoff said in 2004. At the same time, businesses have been desperate to contain rising health-care premiums. Three years later, Kotlikoff is still determinedly on message--and offers his own radical cure for the problem...
...before it came to a decision. Musharraf, apparently, wasn't willing to wait. On Saturday Musharraf declared emergency rule, sacked the Chief Justice, put the other justices under house arrest and shut down the country's independent television stations. While Musharraf announced that emergency law was necessary to contain the spread of extremism, his government's crackdown on lawyers, human rights campaigners, judges and media made it clear that his real target was a civil society and a judiciary willing - and increasingly able - to challenge his power...
...order to post a win, Harvard will have to contain Columbia’s weak offense, which has managed to score an average of only 19.4 points per game, the lowest in the league. The Crimson boasts the best red-zone defense and has recorded the highest number of sacks in the Ivies...
...identification," or AFID, system, enables the Taser to disperse confetti tagged with serial numbers when it is fired, linking a specific Taser to the scene where it is used. But these systems are available only on devices sold to civilians, not to law enforcement. The models sold to police contain a data-port system, however, that records every time the device has been deployed...
...tale appears to contain all the elements of a blockbuster: blackmail, sex, drugs - and a member of the British royal family. On Oct. 28, the Royal Blackmail Plot was splashed across the morning newspapers in the U.K., setting Britons spluttering into their porridge. Two men, according to these front-page reports, had been arrested last month after asking for £ 50,000 (about $100,000) in return for a video purporting to show a royal aide taking cocaine. Some accounts suggested that the video showed the royal engaged in a gay sex act with the aide; in tamer versions...