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Bush has in hand a 2001 blue-ribbon President's commission report that concluded that personal accounts can work as part of a long-term fix. The commission's work is expected to be the starting point for reform discussions. A member of the commission, Robert Pozen, CEO of mutual-fund firm MFS Investment Management, says he believes future benefits must be cut to fix the system. He endorses personal savings accounts as "the sugar to get people to accept some slowdown in the growth of benefits." So far, advocates of reform have promised that people near or at retirement...
...went commercial, with a collection of fresh cotton suits and sexy draped and knotted jersey dresses inspired by Greek togas. Viktor & Rolf, the Dutch duo who launched their first perfume, Flowerbomb, with the cosmetics giant L'Oréal, gave the safari jacket and the tuxedo a feminine edge with ribbon trim...
...addition to such accolades as the blue ribbon at the American Film Festival, Primary won Kennedy’s approval, and he invited cinéma vérité directly into the Oval Office. The result was the 1963 film, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, which documented the federal government’s standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace over educational integration. Few films since have chronicled presidential power with such immediacy—an immediacy too acute for the tastes of the New York Times editorial page, which lambasted Kennedy for making a mockery of the governing process...
Dareema Jenkins ’05, a Widener employee since her freshman year, helped Matthew D. Gibson ’05 and donor Katherine B. Loker cut the ceremonial ribbon adorning the front entrance...
Ever since that whole “meritocracy” thing happened, true-blueblood Ivy Leaguers have had to use sartorial means to identify one another in a crowd. You know the drill: Brooks Brothers oxford button-down, ribbon belt, tweed jacket and—for the more sporting chap—a pastel Lacoste polo, collar upturned. But wait a second—weren’t half the people in your Tuesday morning Gov class wearing the exact same thing? Welcome to campus style, 2004: Retro preppy is in, and if the morning traffic across the Yard last...