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...phone told me I couldn’t join—not for 32 more years until I turn 50. So I find it ironic that while President Bush’s goal to allow workers to divert some of their payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts (PRAs) will chiefly affect young people like me, the AARP is vehemently opposing them. Indeed, the President has set as a nonnegotiable principle that Social Security benefits will not be altered for Americans 55 and older—so that the vast majority of AARP’s membership will not be affected...
...AARP has said that in opposing voluntary PRAs, it is looking out for its members’ children and grandchildren. But if that is the case, I have a message for AARP: Butt out! We children and grandchildren are adults who can make our own decisions. And many of us will indeed choose to divert some of our payroll taxes into private accounts, because PRAs are highly likely to generate more money for our pensions than the current pay-as-you-go system will...
...fared reasonably well, with 30,000 copies shipped to stores in America. The second, Nothing but Your Love, had its second single, Masquerade, released in early March. To lend a little more verve to his R. and B., he has roped in some heavyweight collaborators, such as Pras, The Roots, Angie Stone and Raphael Saadiq. The result: an album that is part basement-funk, part hip-hop?and all slammin' grooves. "You can smell the soul," he says, "and you can feel the temperature like hip-hop. But at the same time you can taste something like sushi...
...producing partner Jerry Duplessis plays along on bass guitar. The pair, who are here to tape a rendition of the Police song Walking on the Moon for the pilot of an MTV series on musical influences, are indulging in an unscheduled jam. Wyclef, who with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel made up the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio the Fugees, pounds out a rock beat, shifts to something funkier and finally settles into a reggae groove that sounds distinctly like Bob Marley's skittering Lively Up Yourself. Then Wyclef, who is more of a guitarist than a drummer, puts...
Although Wyclef just talked to Pras a few weeks ago, he says he hasn't had a conversation with Hill in two years. There have been rumors that Wyclef and Hill had a romantic fling earlier in their careers. Is that old affair the true source of their current estrangement? Wyclef smiles, almost shyly. "I think so," he says. "I think that's really the heart of it." For her part, Hill declines to comment...