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IT WAS SHOCKING ENOUGH WHEN THE BLUEST OF America's blue-chip companies, IBM, announced last November that 20,000 of its 350,000 employees would either retire or resign by the end of this year. But when the estimate of departing workers doubled to 40,000 last week, the...
Opportunities are available for both public and private schools, and they will be there in the future: half of the nation's 2.5 million teachers in the public schools alone are expected to retire or resign in the next ten to fifteen years. With the increasingly diverse student population, minority...
It wasn't exhaustion from grappling with opposing forwards that finally caused Larry Bird, 35, to retire from basketball. Rather, it was the strain of stuffing all 6 ft. 9 in. of himself into airline seats and team buses every night. Citing chronic back pain, the National Basketball Association's...
Even if you don't follow baseball closely, you have probably heard Chicago Cub fans (columnist George Will is a particularly lachrymose example) wailing about how their beloved North Side team has not been in the World Series since -- horrors! -- 1945 or actually won one since -- worse horrors! -- 1908. As...
The Best Intentions -- written by Bergman but directed by Bille August, the Dane who made Pelle the Conqueror -- proves you can't keep a solemn Swede down. It recounts the first married years of Bergman's parents, whose later lives he dramatized in his family-album movie, Fanny and Alexander...