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That doesn't necessarily leave everyone around the water cooler feeling chipper. Many employees view defined-contribution plans as just another corporate cutback dressed up as employee empowerment. To some degree, they're right. Theoretically at least, companies can--by paying a fixed amount each year instead of a percentage of ever rising premiums--better predict and control the price of health care, leaving workers to pick up the rest...
...most intelligent and profound reactions thus far, actors from the American Repertory Theatre, the ART Institute and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club allowed cooler heads to prevail in a performance of Aftermath, an amalgam of poetry, skits, scenes and songs designed to honor the victims and to provide a chance for reflection...
...strumming out tunes on an acoustic guitar. When life gets too tough, he takes a five-minute stroll to the the beach. "I try to surf everyday," he says quietly. "If there's no waves, I'll go swimming, or we'll just set up camp with a cooler and a guitar and play some music...
...short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness is completely unnecessary," says Terpilowski. "Yes, both...
...song whose lyrics are instantly intelligible. Because if you can connect with another person beyond lyrics, beyond language, then you have engaged in a kind of telepathy. You have managed to escape the mundane realm of ordinary communication and entered a place where souls communicate directly. It's cooler than instant messaging. Cherif Mbaw, 33, is a Senegalese singer-guitarist living in Paris; the songs on his brilliant CD Kham Kham are in his native Wolof. But when Mbaw, with his beatific tenor, soars into a passage of staccato vocals and jittery guitar work on Saay Saay, you know exactly...