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Kotlikoff acknowledges his detractors, who argue that his plan for a complete overhaul, although market-based, is politically nonviable. Unlike the plans in Massachusetts and California that are buttressed by existing programs, his wouldn't be the sort of incremental change Americans have come to expect...
...some very sympathetic women who commit adultery - something inconceivable to Shakespeare." Things happen to Shakespeare's women; Middleton's make things happen. Characters like The Roaring Girl's Moll Cutpurse, who flaunts social rules by wearing trousers and refusing to marry, and The Changeling's Beatrice Joanna - whose plan to hire a servant to kill her fiancé backfires when the hit man blackmails her into bed - are the architects of their own destiny, for better or worse...
CORRECTION: The Nov. 8 magazine cover story "Our Burden to Bear" incorrectly stated that Chiki E. Gupta '08 intended to work in microfinance. In fact, Gupta does not plan to enter the field. In addition, the story incorrectly quoted Gupta. Gupta said, "My family is from India. Beyond just putting money into rural India, actually going out there and doing work would be really helpful. I think it's something my family would very much support, and it's something I've always been encouraged...
...German Prime Minister, Angela Merkel should be showing up with a long wish list when she lands in Crawford, Texas, on Friday, for a two-day summit with Bush. The President embarrassed his German counterpart in her own backyard last June when he refused to sign up for her plan to reduce global warming at the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm. Signs of a U.S. effort to make nice could come with some new concession on the environment or on the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and broader issues of human rights in the war on terrorism - another issue...
...understand what my opponents are trying to achieve," she said. "It is potentially a trillion-dollar tax increase." Clinton's point seems solid on several grounds. There are higher priorities than Social Security in 2008, especially if you want to enact universal health insurance or a real energy-independence plan, both of which will require revenue increases. And why start the negotiations now, in the Democratic primary? History shows, as Clinton attests, that the best way to deal with this issue is through a bipartisan commission, where both sides can share the blame for doing the right thing...