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...shingled cottage in Sausalito a block from San Francisco Bay, Allende surrounds herself with mementos: Paula's baby shoes, encased in copper; photographs of her, framed in silver; the earthen jar that contains Paula's ashes; and a letter Paula wrote during her honeymoon, foreseeing her own death. Petite and intense, Allende pours mango tea by a vase of wildflowers in the sunlit room. "All my books come from deep emotion," she says. "They are not born in my mind, they gestate in my womb." Her eyes welling with tears, she spreads across the table the handcrafted cards she uses...
Browne and McCulloch made two hard checks to jar the ball from a Post attack, and Browne grabbed the ground ball and took the ball upfield where he found junior attack Mike Eckert (three goals...
...knowledge about literature. The strain of this make-or-break test induced constant nausea and what he calls "social phobia," a fear of performing in social situations. Things were only made worse by roommate Oswald, an anti-social computer programmer with a bad habit of urinating in a glass jar in various parts of the apartment. Oswald is both comic relief and a warning of what Marler could turn into; it's only a short path, he intimates, form his own awkwardness to his roommate's bizarre aggression...
Social Security's trust funds are not "an empty cookie jar," and Congress has not "raided it for hundreds of billions." Are you suggesting we should have been stashing Social Security funds in cookie jars and burying them behind our Baltimore, Maryland, headquarters? Your report did little to clear up the misunderstandings people have always had about the investment procedures of the trust funds, which by law must be invested in U.S. Treasury bonds. Congress, in turn, uses the money it borrows from Social Security for other purposes. The Treasury bonds are good, and the trust funds earned an impressive...
That contention is, to put it politely, mendacious nonsense. It perpetuates one of the worst myths about Social Security--the idea that the system has piled up vast reserves to pay future pensions. In fact, the so-called trust fund is an empty cookie jar because the Treasury has already raided it for hundreds of billions...