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When employees figure out that they'll lose any pretax money they set aside but don't spend, most simply move on. Who needs to roll the dice on something so unknowable as how often you'll get sick next year? And it's a slap in the face that your employer gets to keep the leftovers. We're not talking big bucks--roughly $20 a year goes unused in the typical health-care or dependent-care FSA. The real crime is that eligible workers grossly underuse fsas out of fear that they will overguesstimate expenses. Drop...
...When employees figure out that they'll lose any pretax money they set aside but don't spend, most simply move on. Who needs to roll the dice on something so unknowable as how often you'll get sick next year? And it's a slap in the face that your employer gets to keep the leftovers. We're not talking big bucks - roughly $20 a year goes unused in the typical health-care or dependent-care FSA. The real crime is that eligible workers grossly underuse FSAS out of fear that they will overguesstimate expenses. Drop...
...white people taking the pictures. They imitated the Hollywood genres of comedy, melodrama, musicals and Westerns. Race movies were counterfeit white movies - faux-ofay. And though the producers surely didn't intend to offend their customers, black-cast pictures flaunted racial stereotypes: idle bucks spending the rent money on dice games and numbers policies, and the women who love them. In the 1939 "Moon Over Harlem," directed by B-movie cult fave Edgar G. Ulmer and written by his wife Shirley, a brassy woman at a wedding reception announces, "When I get married again, I'm gonna marry...
Silence isn't typical of Cairo cafes. Amid the blare of Arab pop music, the dice hitting the backgammon board and the clink of teacups on metal tables, just having an audible conversation can be tough. But these days dead silence from the patrons is not uncommon. In cafes with satellite TV, that hush comes every hour on the hour, when the news bulletin airs on the Qatari channel al-Jazeera, the pre-eminent Arab news network. At Cafe Lialina in the heart of downtown Cairo, the grisly footage of Palestinian corpses in the West Bank town of Jenin--mutilated...
...black or white actresses then, or for decades thereafter. Her volcanic rendition of Irving Berlin's "Swanee Shuffle" (using exactly the leg and hip moves that would make Elvis Presley a star) quickly lures Zekiel, a naive sharecropper, into her arms and, just as quickly, into a loaded dice game run by her no-good lover. Chick then gets religion and makes a stab at domesticity, but her noble aims don't suit a body designed for hot lovin' and a soul drenched in deceit...