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...like to be able to predict their future liabilities, and the defined-benefit approach has rapidly been replaced by the defined-contribution plan: employer and/or employee contributes X dollars, fund trustees invest it, and investment performance determines the payout. It's great in an up market, but, says Michael F. Carter, a benefits specialist with the Hay Group, a worldwide human-resources consultancy, "we're beginning to enter what I call the worry period." Older boomers, he says, are right to wonder "what happens if there's a correction in the stock market and it falls off 20%" without swiftly...
...when my first record came out," she says. "Now I'm 33, and that gives you a confidence and self-assurance and wisdom and more familiarity with your soul. When you're young, you don't really know what the f___ it is you're aiming at. But the voice inside you gets louder as you get older, and you get more directions from it. So on this album there's more of a sense of self-assurance and more awareness of what it is I'm trying to communicate as an artist...
...November 1996 6 - Voters elect the Man from Hope, William Jefferson Clinton, to another term as president of the United States, making him the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to be re-elected. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) earns a third term by defeating his popular Republican opponent, Governor William F. Weld...
...April 1997 1 - An untimely snow storm dumps two feet of snow on the Boston area, causing Governor William F. Weld '66 to declare a state of emergency. While the rest of the Bay State shuts down, Harvard's classes stay open, forcing some faculty members to ski their way to campus...
...Boston Globe reports that former Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann's abrupt resignation last fall was prompted by discovery of pornographic material on his University-owned computer. Thiemann remains a tenured professor but is on sabbatical until...