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...Privatization also favors the better off who have the resources and knowledge to dabble in the stock market, say its critics. Low-income workers would be out of their element. It could also put a heavy administrative burden on both the Social Security system and small businesses not experienced in running 401K's. The Social Security system is a fairly straightforward operation for both the government and businesses. Taxes are deducted from paychecks and sent to the federal government at regular intervals. Checks are mailed out to retirees. That's about it. But managing a 401K plan...
Scotty’s does have a sketchy element. (As my boyfriend said, “go figure...sketchiness at a truck stop.”) Men brag about how many wheels are on their trucks to my best friend Lisa and me—the youngest employees there, and to some minds that equates to us being fresh meat. Every day, she’s offered a place in a truck on its way to Canada, and I’m offered some guy’s phone number or a trip to his house—sometimes jokingly...
...Jamil Hamad: I think the situation has reached a point that you need an outside element to force both sides to respect the agreement. The cease-fire is dead. But I have a big doubt about the possibility of the United States doing this or the capability of Europe, so I see a continuation of this conflict in one way or another...
...Basel museum because Switzerland's Tibetan exile community, numbering some 2,500, is the largest in Europe. In the early 1960s the country was the first in Europe to grant Tibetan refugees immigrant status, and part of the exhibition is dedicated to the lives of those exiled. An important element of Tibetan culture and spiritual life in Switzerland is the Monastic Institute in the town of Rikon. When the first refugees started arriving four decades ago, the Dalai Lama sent several monks and an abbot to Rikon, where the exiles congregated, to provide them with spiritual care. Today the monastery...
...sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency to exaggerate one's part in the great events of the 1960s...