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...will soon have to support too many retirees, the system is hampered by complexities that promote confusion, distrust and noncompliance. Rather than have one unified scheme, for example, Japan has three, categorized by employment status. Salaried employees and public servants are enrolled automatically, but the self-employed have to fill out forms in order to join. And those designated as "self-employed" include a grab bag of illogical participants, including some housewives, students and, oddest of all, Diet members. Although paying into the pension pool of the self-employed is technically mandatory, it is, in practice, voluntary. So many either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Scandal Is What's Legal | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...today's up-and-coming performers would rather be heard on the subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singin' in the Train | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...NOCs have traditionally been a tough position to fill. Though not a complete solution to the CIA's problem of gathering human intelligence, the NOC program can help. It's extremely expensive and dangerous to build a credible non-official cover by planting someone in, say, a corporate executive post in Islamabad or as a cell phone salesman in Madrid - positions in which a CIA officer would have no diplomatic immunity from arrest by the host government and little protection from deadly retribution by terrorists. Worse, the CIA has faced major bureaucratic hurdles in setting up an infrastructure to ensure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOCs Hard for the CIA | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

Fish has submitted his preliminary lineup—eight players to fill six singles spots—and it contains co-captain Cliff Nguyen in the fourth singles position. The senior missed six of seven Ivy matches with a lingering back injury, but his pivotal win at Brown clinched that match and, for all practical purposes, the Ivy crown...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lingman, Chu Make NCAA Tournament | 5/12/2004 | See Source »

Senior Chris Chiou has missed time as well, in fact, and will fill the seventh spot while freshman Jack Li takes the sixth. Sophomore Brandon Chiu rounds out the group at eight, while senior George Turner—who has gone 8-3 this spring—didn’t make the list...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lingman, Chu Make NCAA Tournament | 5/12/2004 | See Source »

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