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...pensions country," says influential retirement-plan consultant Keith Ambachtsheer--the average retiree can count on a pension equal to 96.8% of his working income. Ample money is set aside to fund pensions, and it is invested prudently but not timidly. Companies contribute to employees' accounts but aren't stuck with profit-killing obligations if their business shrinks or the stock market tanks...
...they are two of a dozen or so movie comics who are giving the genre a clout it hasn't seen for decades--maybe since the great silent era of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Vince Vaughn and their jolly colleagues aren't of Chaplin's artistic stature, but they are something the industry loves (moneymakers) and the public needs (pleasure givers). Fronting hit after hit, comedy stars have taken the place of those Hollywood stalwarts, the action stars...
Gold and Disney, who eventually dropped their lawsuit over Iger's appointment, now count themselves among the Iger believers. "The ultimate outcomes of the technological changes that are occurring in the business aren't clear to anyone," Gold says, "but Bob is working hard to figure...
...Bush Administration recedes, leading Democrats are offering a more radical interpretation: 9/11 didn't merely show that the U.S. faces threats from rising powers in a different section of the globe; it heralded a world where rising powers aren't the major threat at all. The real danger, they argue, is from states that are too dysfunctional to educate their people, provide public health or control their territory--and thus export a swarm of pathologies, from jihadist terrorism to loose nukes to bird flu. It's no surprise that Edwards and Obama want to boost foreign aid. They believe...
There's another problem. Even the best-laid U.S. plans to combat transnational threats won't succeed if rising powers like China and India aren't part of the solution. The U.S. doesn't have the power or credibility to design and enforce rules for how other nations should handle public health, weapons proliferation, the environment or almost anything else without other big countries on board. The U.S.'s efforts to help weak states will largely depend on how well we cooperate with strong ones...