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...Dutch have steered a middle way between irresponsible Continental generosity and practical Anglo-American stinginess. They have also, to lapse into pension jargon, split the difference between DB and DC plans. In a defined-benefit (DB) plan, workers are promised a retirement income, and the sponsor--usually a corporation or government--is on the hook to provide it. In a defined-contribution (DC) plan, the worker and sometimes the employer set aside money and hope it will be enough...
...only experienced a tiny portion of the sub-Saharan country. Where she had previously lived in a poor rural village, Cohen found herself in an area where Passats lined the street across from the university where she studied. The sociology concentrator, who grew up in Washington, DC, also chose to go to “a predominantly black high school in a predominantly white area” and learned first-hand about racial and class segregation. Cohen says she thought staying in the public school system was crucial for her own development. “I had everything I needed...
Schlesinger came back to teach at Harvard in 1947, but his work—and his thoughts—never strayed far from Washington DC. He warned of the dangers posed by Stalinism and counseled Democratic candidates until he joined the John F. Kennedy’s administration as an adviser (his work was expansive and never clearly defined). He won his second Pulitzer Prize—the first had come in 1946 for “The Age of Jackson”—for the biographical “A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy...
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...Honorable Alberto Gonzales Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC...