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...bill - more or less an encapsulation of what President Bush suggested a while back - makes the easy fixes. Companies must warn employees 30 days before freezing trading in their 401(k) retirement plan accounts - remember those Enron victims? - and company executives would be banned from selling their company stock during blackout periods when workers can't make changes to their 401(k) accounts. As for diversification, it also forces companies that use their own stock to match employees' contributions to allow workers to sell that stock after three years. (Enron's threshold was a penny-pinching...
...some listeners, the yearning lyricism of the romantic composers can be painfully sweet, if not unbearably sentimental. Good music teachers often warn their students that romantic pieces are the most difficult to perform because their melodies are so unabashedly pleasing. If played with too much enthusiasm, Schubert can go from heartfelt to mawkish, embarrassing classicists everywhere. But handled conservatively, an emotionally moving piece can feel equally stilted and bland...
...night meeting with his students during his first year proctoring, DeGreeff delivered his spiel on dangerous religious groups and was surprised to discover that one of his students had already joined the BCC after being on campus for only one day. The church had even seen to it to warn her that her proctor would speak out against the church but to disregard his admonitions. Over the next four years, she became a frequent subject of student complaints—but also one of the church’s best recruiters...
...Another iteration of this is the "trick." It amuses my son more than seems reasonable to warn me of horrible things that are happening to me. "Mommy, there's a big shark on your butt," is a common variation. "Your hair is on fire," is another. I am almost entirely to blame for these implausibilities since I can't help reacting with a generous serving of ham, twisting wildly to see my rear end or banging my head to put out the conflagration. My son gets to say, "Tricked you!" He's happy, I'm happy; we continue driving, until...
...Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra has never been shy about taking on his critics. But that's hard to do when they are an invisible band of roving black propaganda-meisters. On March 23 the PM used his weekly national radio address to warn the kingdom about a plot to undermine his government. Thaksin said "devilish" forces have been paying an army of henchmen to ride in cabs and say terrible things about him-in the nefarious hope that the cabbies would pass the criticism on to other fares. "They're damaging the country, but I won't waver," a resolute...