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...LATHAM 47 - BEAZLEY 45. New Sensation. "I'm the same Mark Latham but I'm in a new role." All my life. "I love the larrikin Australian role, but no more crudity." New politics. "Modern politics is broken, and we need to fix it." Democracy in the raw. "If in doubt, let's have more democracy, more direct voting, more public participation." Town-hall style meetings. Possum Magic. "If we all read books to our infant children, they will be reading themselves by the time they go to school." What did you learn today? "Quality teaching is a passport...
...taking out a little less (smaller benefits). The last major overhaul, in 1983, did a bit of both. The plan favored by Bush would reduce benefits by the amount diverted to private accounts, plus peg benefit growth to prices instead of wages. Here are some alternative answers--a proper fix may need more than...
...typical retirement age was 65 and life expectancy was about 60. The retirement age was changed in 1983 to gradually rise to 67. Because people are living longer, raising it to 70 would better reflect a realistic expectation of working years. Supporters say this is a fix with few costs, but it would have to be calibrated carefully. If you work longer, you could accrue more benefits, although you might have less time to enjoy them...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Abandoning Ship P&O finally pulled the plug on a scheduled 103-day world cruise by its flagship Aurora after the vessel spent 11 days shuttling mostly between the English port city of Southampton and the Isle of Wight while engineers tried to fix an engine problem. The company's offer of a full refund seemed unlikely...
...chocolate. - By Joe Kirwin Chemical Brothers European Commission antitrust police fined three chemical firms €217 million for running a cartel in the market for a widely-used chemical between 1984 and 1999. Dutch firm Akzo Nobel, France's Atofina - now Arkema - and Germany's Hoechst colluded to fix the price of MCAA, used to make food and cosmetics...