Word: socialism
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Daniel M. Suleiman is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House...
Rising FICA burden. Beginning this year, you will pay Social Security tax on the first $72,600 you earn--up from the $68,400 threshold in 1998. That's a 6.1% hike, a rate that is roughly double the pay increase most wage earners will see. For anyone whose income exceeds that higher level, it means an extra $260.40 a year owed to the feds. Tip: earnings stashed in a flexible-spending account at work are exempt from FICA withholding. In a two-earner household, it may pay for the lower earner to fund the account...
Travel writing involves an odd social contract: writer, for pay, agrees to view inspirational scenery and have a great time, saving reader the trouble of doing so. But Mark Hertsgaard's contract was odder than most. A few years ago, the journalist, who has written books on the Reagan Administration, nuclear energy and the Beatles, set off on a trip around the world in search of noxious vistas and pollutive sunsets--the environmental wreckage that other travelers take pains to avoid. His clear-eyed report, Earth Odyssey (Broadway Books; 372 pages; $26), backed by careful scholarship...
...SOCIAL UPHEAVAL 999: Rise of new class of armored knights 1999: Rise of new class of techno-geeks...
DIED. ANITA HOFFMAN, 56, social activist; of breast cancer; in San Francisco. Wife of the late Yippie Abbie, Hoffman joined her husband in some of his more outlandish activities, such as disrupting trading at the New York Stock Exchange by showering the floor with money. She also supported him for years while he hid from the police to avoid drug charges...