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...getting's good that's my decision. (And yes, it does make financial professionals wince when I admit this.) But it's still my call, and if I want a retirement plan that isn't tied to my company's fortunes I can put the money in an IRA or I can go work for somebody else. If AOL then wants to convince me to stay by changing its plan and matching my monthly put-in with, say, Microsoft shares (up 46 percent last year), then they can go right ahead...
...self-employed, wait to send out your pending bills until early January, so you'll receive your checks next year. Also, set up a Keogh plan by Dec. 31. Like an IRA, a Keogh allows investment earnings to grow tax-deferred until the money is taken out. But while you can save $2,000 in a Roth or traditional IRA in 2001, you can contribute as much as 25% of eligible compensation, up to a maximum contribution of $35,000, in a Keogh, and you don't have to fund it until your tax return...
...Most important, they wrote music people thought was important. Kern and Hammerstein made the Broadway musical respectable with "Show Boat." George and Ira Gershwin were the first songwriters to win a Pulitzer Prize for a musical ("Of Thee I Sing"). Berlin did some work for Broadway in this period, but mainly he ground out one-off songs. You could say that he made nothing but hits and money. He talked grandly about writing a "folk opera" (Gershwin finally did); Puccini supposedly wanted to collaborate with him on an opera. But Berlin was compelled to keep writing in a form that...
...them, which are now collected in "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" (Knopf, 530 pp., $65), a handsome tome edited by Robert Kimball and Berlin's second daughter Linda Emmet. The volume - fourth in an invaluable series that previously collected the pop poetry of Cole Porter, Ira Gershwin and Lorenz Hart - supplements all of Berlin's musical words with biographical data, short essays on the most important songs and several hundred unpublished works. It's a book you could live in, happily, for weeks...
...Fidelity Investments survey released this month shows that 2 out of 5 families--some 71 million Americans in all--haven't scraped together even a three-month cushion. In a pinch, those surveyed said, they would borrow from friends and family, sell investments and raid their tax-advantaged ira and 401(k) retirement accounts...