Word: rat
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...hard to believe that just two years ago, all the talk was of leaving the rat race early. Cocky young Internet entrepreneurs were poster children for that movement. Working to 65 was for losers. After all, you can get early, albeit reduced Social Security benefits starting at 62. By the late '90s some 73% of retirees had opted to take early benefits, compared with just 18% in 1960. You can begin to take penalty-free IRA and 401(k) distributions at age 59 1/2--and even earlier under certain circumstances. Many companies start offering retiree health benefits at 55. And when...
...from ancient barbarisms that refuse to die, sacrifice and sorcery are making a comeback. Sociologists explain the millions who now throng the two main Kali centers in eastern India, at Kamakhya and Tarapith, as what happens when the rat race that is India's future meets the superstitions of its past. Sociologist Ashis Nandy says: "You see your neighbor doing well, above his caste and position, and someone tells you to get a child and do a secret ritual and you can catch up." Adds mysticism expert Ipsita Roy Chakaraverti: "It's got nothing to do with real mysticism...
...from his words in court, the professed terrorist who'd chosen to defend himself suddenly appeared to be desperately seeking a plea bargain. Moussaoui may once have vowed to die for his cause and professed a loyalty oath to bin Laden, but on Thursday he declared his willingness to rat out bin Laden as a means of further postponing his journey into the next world...
...Miranda for supporting, and not just Kim Cattrall for the ever-more-drag-queen-like Samantha. (But Lauren Graham, denied a comedy-actress spot for "Gilmore Girls," was robbed. Not only is she so cool and bracing she should wear a speared olive on her head, but given the rat-a-tat hour-long "Gilmore" scripts, she may well have to memorize more dialogue per episode than actors who play Hamlet...
...actor brother Teddy; but upon Teddy's death this portion would devolve to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, a favorite charity of Kron's. Teddy's son Larry, Hart's namesake and only nephew, would be shut out after his father died. Smelling a rat - or, rather, two: Kron and Rodgers - Teddy and his wife Dorothy sued them both. The mess took years to clean up, during which time Rodgers and the surviving Harts did not speak...