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...just behind the S&P 500 index gain of 15.29%. Meanwhile, the average general stock fund has been lagging: 19.4% last year; 12.5%, on average, each of the past 10 years. Historically speaking, those returns are phenomenal. But next to the average returns easily available through index funds, they pale...
...risks of partial privatization of Social Security pale next to the actuarial certainty of Social Security's bankruptcy if nothing is changed. And in its current form, the program's regressive payroll taxes already impose a huge burden on most working families, who will never get back what they're paying into the system and are forced to subsidize retirees who are, on average, wealthier than they...
...gone in a week or two, a mere worsening of the flu that has gripped 64,000 Muscovites during this frigid winter. But as TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge notes, the latest medical emergency only underlines a sobering reality, that the Boris Yeltsin of today is a pale shadow of the dynamic leader of 1992. While Yeltsin continues to represent stability in Russia to his supporters at home and admirers abroad, the vigorous President Yeltsin they support is no longer evident. After Yeltsin's re-election in July, everyone hoped for the return...
...campus to act. In recent weeks, the U.S. has faltered in its support of a relief package to Zairian refugees. Perhaps President Clinton's hesitancy and apathy in this matter could have been reversed by a few hundred informed letters from concerned college students. Unfortunately, political refugees in Zaire pale in importance among Harvard students to poor Lowell House residents who must somehow survive three years without a frozen yogurt machine...
...felt--bordering on saccharine--moments. While his primary voice is one of cheerful sarcasm, he does stoop to write the kind of wistful and syrupy stuff into which American folk music has deteriorated. Guthrie's newer songs attempt poetic appraisals of the human condition--rather than satiric ones--which pale before the nutty genius of his older work. And when Guthrie, in his words, "sings pretty" instead of hokey and talky, he sounds a lot like Bob Dylan. But if this is a comparison which a listener naturally would extend to the lyrics, it's a decidedly unfortunate...