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Perhan is a comer, and not just because he can move a spoon up a wall with his bare will. The teenager is eager to escape his wastrel uncle Merdzan (Husnija Hasimovic), who practices Tai Chi and chases every village female over twelve. Perhan is desperate to pay the hospital bills for his crippled sister (Elvira Sali) and earn enough money to marry his girlfriend Azra (Sinolicka Trpkova). He must do it quickly, before Merdzan can get his lecherous hands on her. "Make sure her feet don't see more sky than earth," Perhan warns Grandma when he hires himself...
Some integrity is badly needed right now. Until 1983, Social Security was run on a pay-as-you-go basis, with payroll taxes bringing in roughly the same amount that was disbursed as benefits. But that year a bipartisan commission -- on which Moynihan played a key role -- designed a scheme to build a surplus that could swell to $4 trillion by 2010. The money would come from a series of increases in Social Security contributions, which began to phase in six years ago, and from taxing the benefits of higher-income retirees...
...generation that will follow the baby boomers with huge tax increases or a mountain of new debt. But the intentions of the reform plan were thwarted by the explosive growth of the deficit. Instead of accumulating a stash of savings, the Government has borrowed each year the surplus to pay for the normal operations of the U.S. Government, with no plan for repaying the loans. "It is like an individual having a private pension fund consisting of his own IOUs," writes economist Paul Craig Roberts, a Treasury official during the Reagan Administration...
Confronted with this disaster, Lenin zigzagged. According to the New Economic Policy inaugurated in 1921, private enterprise was once again permitted, farmers could keep or sell more of their crops, overtime pay was restored, a new state bank reformed the currency (sound familiar?). Predictably enough, improvements soon followed -- production up, trade up. But in this ambiguous moment of success, Lenin suffered a stroke. He struggled to stay at his post, to finish his work, but two more strokes increasingly paralyzed him, and after 22 months of decline, he died in 1924, at only...
...think they're going in the right direction," said Eli Karsh '91. But Karsh, who said he would not buy a membership, said he felt that students' having to pay a fee was wrong. "I think that's heinous," he said. "It's an awful crime...