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Ruiz has acted in about six campus productions and directed two shows at Harvard, one in the Loeb Experimental Theatre and "How the Other Half Loves," which recently closed after a two-weekend run at the Agassiz Theatre...
...that under present tax and benefit schedules, the Social Security system would plunge $6.9 trillion into debt between 2014 and 2034. If that is accurate, Clinton's 1999 budget proposals, which are supposed to pump $2.7 trillion into Social Security during the next 15 years, would close less than half the initial gap. Further reforms would be needed to keep revenues in balance with payouts after 2034. Also, the present system contains some glaring inequities that ought to be corrected--at the cost of making the fiscal gap even wider. No one proposal will probably come near to filling...
...three years ago. But some overestimation probably remains, and could cause trouble in the hardly impossible event that price increases speed up once more. So it would be a wise precaution to decide that if the CPI rises more than 2% in a year, the COLA would go up half a point less. If the CPI rises 2.5%, pensions would go up 2%; a CPI increase of 5% would boost pensions...
...hours playing Quake, he recently told his dad that he especially enjoyed Grand Theft Auto, a particularly violent video game in which the player gets points by stealing cars and killing police officers. Unaware his son had this game, Tom asked him why he bought it, considering his older half brother is a policeman. "Because it's fun," said Peter. "I know cops aren't bad. It doesn't make me want to go out and steal cars. Video games don't influence me." Tom says that had he known, he would have forbidden the purchase. But he hasn...
...legacy codes," the 100 or so calculations that he put on his hard drive contained a gold mine of nuclear secrets--reams of physics equations and weapon-test results and warhead designs--painstakingly amassed by the U.S. since the government began building atom bombs at Los Alamos a half-century ago. When Energy Department officials discovered in March that a mid-level scientist had copied programs from the prized database, they were chagrined. That the scientist was the Taiwanese-born Lee, the same one fired on March 8 amid fears that he might already have passed weapons secrets...