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...funds in the account, however, are handled by the plan, not you. Some parents may eschew this cookie-cutter approach to investing. "The downside is, once the money is in the option you choose, it stays there," says Joseph Hurley, a C.P.A. in Pittsford, N.Y., and author of The Best Way to Save for College. Many plans use an age-allocation formula, investing more conservatively as a child gets older. But now that financial-services companies are helping manage these plans, the offerings can be much broader, Hurley says...
...That, in essence, is the concept behind the Medicare plan Texas Governor George W. Bush unveiled last week. But it is also the basic approach behind a bipartisan plan that has been languishing on Capitol Hill for more than a year. And it was the notion Newt Gingrich put forward in 1995 when he was House Speaker, setting up the political standoff that produced that year's infamous government shutdowns...
What's an editor to do when a word favored by the road rage brigade finds itself uttered by a presidential candidate? Print it or take a more blushing-bride approach? That was the dilemma faced in newsrooms all over the country Monday when George W. Bush, while proclaiming that he wants to run a G-rated, family-friendly campaign, was overhead making making distinctly PG-13 comments to his running mate, Dick Cheney, about Adam Clymer, a New York Times reporter covering the event...
Greece and the U.S. have lost great men to the unfair, cowardly attacks of terrorists over the past 25 years. And it is true that the police and various government officials have done little about it. But your reporter's hostile approach renders your point invalid. After all, Greece is a lot safer than the U.S. Innocent civilians are not under threat from 17 November attacks. In the U.S. one lives with a constant death threat from kids carrying deadly weapons, not to mention the country's alarming crime rates. SPYROS MICHAS Athens...
...says, are "stigma, shame, secrets, silence and sin." The "TAO" of family is an acronym for the three things we need when our lives are thrown into chaos: time, affection and optimism. Some of Coloroso's observations are wise; others will be annoying to those less inclined toward this approach. But it's hard to quibble with her favorite formulation: "Life is not fair. Life hurts. Life is good...