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...PRESENT predicament? In the always conventional wisdom of Washington, legions of the elderly and those nearing retirement are terrified that any change, even the smallest, will lead sooner or later to slashing their none too generous government checks. And they will punish any legislator who doesn't swear to keep hands off the system with the electoral equivalent of burning at the stake. This attitude certainly exists, and not only among older Americans of modest means. Leonard Schwartz, 52, a lawyer in Austin, Texas, earns a six-figure income and has built up a sizable nest egg for the retirement...
...avoiding much worse future pain. So long as the crisis is not about to burst next month, Democrats will see political profit in portraying any proposal to change Social Security as a Republican conspiracy to starve the poor and elderly. Republicans will think the only defense is to swear eternal fealty to the system as it is. Whether both parties can overcome the impulse to demagoguery and agree on some reasonable reforms poses nothing less than a severe test of democratic government. Most of them already know the urgent question: How can the country honor the promise it has made...
...still nicer and ever thought of beating all the Houses, they should provide good late night snacks during the reading and exam periods, just like the Houses, or should even re-open at night. They may argue they are already doing this, but as a Canaday Hall resident, I swear that I didn't see anything coming to our Common Room as they promised last semester. If they ever did, it is only the old problem: they hadn't provided enough. Yeah, "enough"--that is not an unfamiliar word to describe people's hope for the Union's food...
Certainly marital therapy has become big business in the past decade or so, though few hard figures are available. Some 4.6 million couples a year visit 50,000 licensed family therapists, up from 1.2 million in 1980. Thousands of couples swear by such programs as PAIRS (Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills), the semester-long relationship class offered by the PAIRS Foundation in 50 U.S. cities (as well as 16 other countries), or Retrouvaille, a church-sponsored program in which couples who have weathered their own marital difficulties run weekend seminars for other couples in trouble...
This back-and-forth sniping suggests that the world has grown more complicated than it was when Consumer Reports made its debut almost 59 years ago. Subscribers still swear by it. Cheryll and Tommy Schechtman, both in their early 40s, recently built a new house in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and wanted to upgrade all the major appliances on a $10,000 budget. Says Cheryll: "We're pretty trusting about what Consumer Reports recommends." But the exponential growth of new products threatens to swamp the magazine that was established to rank them for the buying public. Hundreds of new computer...