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Some self-destructive blacks who actually suffer from nihilism—a sense of hopelessness so severe that a person no longer actively pursues a meaningful life—take hip-hop’s public celebration of this outlook to justify their lifestyle. Today’s hip-hop industry portrays such self-destruction as normative—a development which can only prove problematic for the advancement of black people worldwide. The rest of America, buffered by lingering segregation, is unable or unwilling to discern fantasy from reality and consumes this imagery as authentic, with real effects. Because...
Google Desktop Search (available at desktop.google com works inside your Web browser: type keywords into the search field, just as you would to search the Internet. Although Google's program scours Word and Excel documents, Outlook messages and more, to find matches for your queries, it recognizes audio and video only by file name...
...clear challenges to the current Social Security regime. The number of workers paying into the Social Security system per retiree is in a constant decline; today’s 3.4 workers per retiree will shrink to as few as 2.1 workers per retiree by 2030. Even the most favorable outlook on the current system, in which the Treasury Department finds a way to pay back the $1.9 trillion it has milked from the Social Security “trust,” leaves Social Security insolvent by 2042. Something needs to be done. But privatization is not the answer...
Though the privatization of Social Security would be a major coup for Wall Street and the banking firms who would maintain the personal accounts, the American citizen is left with a riskier retirement outlook from a system that’s very name heralds its aversion to risk. Social Security is in need of a facelift, not a burial. Placing the system on stronger footing is necessary and can be accomplished by a gradual increase of the retirement age to 70 to reflect the reality of longer life expectancies. While private retirement accounts should have a place in any individual?...
...List hit theaters in March 1994—just as State Department officials were honing their foot-dragging techniques so that America could shirk its duty to intervene in Rwanda. No doubt Hotel will generate Oscar buzz. But will it increase ordinary Americans’ awareness of genocide? The outlook is grim. But George and Rusesabagina have a track record of defying all odds...