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...Before Paprika, Kon's animations included the sado-thriller Perfect Blue and the movie-crazy Millennium Actress, a tribute to Japanese live-action dramas and monster films. His new film is a psychological detective story about a machine, the DC Mini, that offers the key to unlocking the meaning of dreams (even as animation is, in a way, the key to unlocking the feeling of dreams). A police detective hopes to solve a murder by telling his dreams to the sexy Paprika, who is also a staid researcher Atsuko. They're aided or threatened by the usual scifi-noir suspects...
...TIME: Growing up you had a coach, Taras ("Stink") Brown, who wouldn't let you play pickup games with your friends. Instead, he insisted that you do dribbling drills, and sprint up a steep hill near your DC-area home. How did you feel about that...
...aimed at preventing companies from underfunding them. In response, some companies spent billions shoring up their funds; many others simply stopped offering pensions. Just since 2004, at least 66 big companies have frozen or terminated their DB plans, estimates Barclays Global Investors. Corporate DB has given way to individual DC plans like the 401(k) and IRA. But these put too much responsibility on the shoulders of individual workers. Many don't save enough money, and those who do set aside enough earn returns that are on average much lower than those of pension funds...
...trouble in 2002 after the stock market crashed and interest rates sank, the country came up with a unique response. The Dutch funds are now no longer on the hook for providing a set income in retirement no matter what happens to financial markets--that is, they've gone DC--but they didn't shunt everything to individual workers. Risks are shared by all the members of a pension fund, and the money is managed by professionals...
Pension consultant Ambachtsheer argues that this "collective DC" is just what the U.S. needs. Many companies here are improving 401(k)s to give employees more guidance, and there's talk in Washington of supplementing (not supplanting) Social Security with near mandatory retirement accounts. But even those changes would fall well short of going Dutch. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Countries don't always set aside enough money to pay for the pensions they promise [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...