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...start by calculating what you'll receive from Social Security, private pensions and any other sources, such as alimony. The current maximum benefit from Social Security is $16,476 a year, and the age at which you can receive that money is increasing. Beginning next year, the minimum age for full benefits will start its jump from 65 to 66. Beginning in 2003, the age at which full benefits are payable will gradually increase to 67. You can start tapping into your account as early as age 62, but that will reduce forever the amount of your monthly benefits. Also...
...Faculty members and student representatives proposed two especially useful plans of attack to improve advising--establishing a minimum standard of quality across all departments and encouraging the appointment of senior Faculty members as head tutors or directors of undergraduate studies...
Both proposals are good ones, though it seems that it would not be asking too much to have the College impose more than just a "minimum standard" of advising across departments. Harvard takes pride in its decentralized system, and departments hold tight to their autonomy. But if there's one area which should be closely watched and standardized, it is advising. Without strong prompting from University Hall, some departments may never recognize that their undergraduates deserve careful attention. The Economics Department, for example, ranked 35th out of 38 concentrations on the 1998 senior survey. But Head Tutor and Associate Professor...
...provide up to a third of the peacekeeping force, estimated at 25,000, for an open-ended and risky mission. In Bosnia, U.S. forces were to be out in a year, but 6,900 are still on the ground after three years. This time three years will be the minimum. Some senior Republicans, including Bob Dole, are for it. John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says that since a U.S. general commands NATO, American troops should take part in its efforts "wherever it will be in the world." When you're the sole surviving superpower, that...
Although the committee, led by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, did not suggest restricting the current level of autonomy that the concentrations currently enjoy, it recommended fostering a certain amount of coordination that could set some minimum College wide standards...