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Saloth Sar, better known as Pol Pot, has died in exactly the way guerrillas are not supposed to: peacefully in his sleep. By doing so, he cheated both his pursuers in Cambodia and his would-be international tribunal. It was perfect timing: "We could almost have arrested him tomorrow," said Youk Chhang of the Yale University project that was gathering evidence against the Khmer Rouge killer...
...because of the "political hailstorm" that would ensue. But Social Security benefits weren't taxed before the 1980s. Real estate deductions were greatly curbed in 1986. In 20 years, predicts Robert Walsh, a tax professor at Marist College, if Social Security is bankrupt, "the politicians will see this huge pot of money called the Roth, and they won't be able to leave it alone." The Roth is a good idea for many people--and it sure has worked out well for the Senator. But if the taxman comes calling two decades hence, don't say I didn't warn...
...GENOCIDAL CENTURY Then there was the dark side. Amid the glories of the century lurked some of history's worst horrors: Stalin's collectivization, Hitler's Holocaust, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's killing fields, Idi Amin's rampages. We try to personalize the blame, as if it were the fault of just a few madmen, but in fact it was whole societies, including advanced ones like Germany, that embraced or tolerated madness. What they had in common was that they sought totalitarian solutions rather than freedom. Theologians have to answer the question of why God allows evil. Rationalists...
...entire society rapidly and mercilessly; he created a regime that erased politics, erased historical memory, erased opposition. In his short career in power, from 1917 until his death in 1924, Lenin created a model not merely for his successor, Stalin, but for Mao, for Hitler, for Pol Pot...
...overhear each other's lunch time conversation. Inevitably, the table next door is populated by the Lewis family from Minneapolis. Three kids, aged 9, 13 and 15, sit across from mom, a secretary, and dad, a financial analyst. The two older kids have braces. Their father sports a pot belly and a cell phone...