Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peace Corps, take swing-dancing lessons and never again utter the words "Why? Because I said so!" But the transition from childhood to college is seldom smooth for parents or their offspring, who face life for the first time without curfews, vegetables or clean laundry--and with plenty of social and academic pressure...
What with lingering questions about Social Security and the demise of the traditional pension, Americans have embraced stocks as never before. The number of individuals owning stocks or stock funds has swollen to 78 million, up from 42 million in 1983. Our 401(k) accounts are bulging, and there is encouraging evidence that the masses are behaving smartly--by diversifying and holding for long periods...
...smug. Consider that more than half the population is being left out, and if the stock market is really our ticket to retirement bliss, that must change. Individual Social Security accounts that let taxpayers direct part of their payments into stocks would be a start...
Love, she once said, was "the bread of my life and pen," but so too were gender, instinct, the natural world, childhood, innocence, debauchery and the throwing off of convention, social as well as literary. When she was not writing, she was re-creating herself: taking three husbands and countless lovers, both male and female; exploring the Paris demimonde; even, strapped for cash, starting a beauty business at age 58. Such a life--one that has been copiously documented, by Colette and others--presents Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette (Knopf; 592 pages...
Unlike many other hard-rock bands, Rage, as guitarist Tom Morello puts it, has "social and political" concerns. Indeed, in an interview, De la Rocha sounds off on a wide range of topics. He ridicules New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani: "There's nothing more dangerous than a fascist with aspiration for higher office." He's also critical of Sean ("Puffy") Combs: "If Reagan were a rapper, he'd be in Puff Daddy's crew. It's the same set of politics. Get yours. F___ everyone else. Just get paid. Don't think about community...