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They toil at a summer's game in sweatshops that are green and airy. The rank-and-filer earns an average of $363,000 a year, not counting shaving-cream endorsements. A major-league baseball player is hardly your typical working stiff...
Microsoft appears to be going through a mid-life crisis--buying flashy toys and having prolonged bouts of soul searching. Take this piece of dissent from a rank and filer: "The products are there. The marketing is not. Gates and Ballmer have been our salespeople for so long, but we need more voices out there selling our products." Even the executive suites are not immune to mea culpas. "We need to be more predictable to our customers," says vice president Johnson. "We need to make it easier to do business with...
...When you've chosen your free tax filer and gone to an outside site, you can being filing. To work with a vendor site, you'll need to create a unique username and password, as this will function as your electronic signature on your return. The same username and password can be used in different years. Each site will ask for your personal information, your social security number and other relevant info. After that, you can begin the form, which in most cases consists of a number of easy-to-understand radio buttons and text boxes that make the cumbersome...
Current bankruptcy law allows most individuals and families to file under Chapter 7. Here, assets--if there are any--are pulled together by a trustee and sold off. The bankruptcy filer may be able to keep his home and a few personal possessions. Retirement accounts and pensions also cannot be touched. Proceeds from the asset sale are divided among creditors. Outstanding debts, such as credit-card or medical bills, are discharged, meaning they do not have to be paid. Again there are certain exceptions: most taxes, child support, alimony and student loans cannot be discharged. Other individuals and families--those...
...this psych-fi chiller, Timothy Findley's choice of psychiatrist is not the over-familiar Sigmund Freud but his rival Carl Jung, herald of the theory of collective unconscious. Jung's fictive patient, known as Pilgrim, is an X-Filer's dream and an HMO's nightmare: every time he dies, he comes back to life. Pilgrim is obviously a dramatization of Jung's doctrines. Too obviously. The action is bracketed by the 1912 sinking of the Titanic and the first day of World War I in 1914, and the apocalyptic deep-think brings to mind Peter DeVries' remark about...