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...Social Security's long-term financing needs, which will be reassessed soon in the system's annual trustees' report. But a couple of years of below-expected payroll-tax receipts shouldn't dramatically change that forecast - and whatever long-run deficits the trustees project for Social Security will pale beside those expected for sister program Medicare...
Where has TIME been for eight years? No one has tried to silence Limbaugh's trash talk on Obama. To suggest that he has been wronged is beyond the pale. Allison Simpson, LA MESA, CALIF...
Like brother, like sister. Actor and producer James Haven might be better known as the equally pale brother of Angelina Jolie, that luminescent beauty of an actress who has garnered for herself a different type of celebrity status as an international do-gooder. Haven wants to follow suit, and his work will take him to Harvard this week...
...1990s, at the height of a dirty war fought against Kurdish separatists, state-sanctioned death squads allegedly killed hundreds of people and then buried them in unmarked pits, according to human-rights groups. Those groups estimate 5,000 people died; 1,000 have never been found. Now, like the pale crocuses emerging underfoot, there are stirrings of change across Turkey. For the first time, a public prosecutor has authorized excavation of one of the sites where missing Kurds are believed to be buried. The ruling represents something of a revolution in a country that has long oppressed Kurdish rights...
...This event is making me nervous," says Katina Garrard, a quiet, pale woman watching the phone toss. Garrard was a legal ethics assistant at International Paper in Memphis, Tennessee until three months ago, when her company announced extensive layoffs. Memphis is a small city and none of the major corporations were hiring, so Garrard picked up for New York, where she thought the opportunities would be - "well, not plentiful, but at least they would exist." She attended a job fair earlier in the day, but it just depressed her. "There were lines and lines of people hoping...