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...Bush came out with guns blazing this week for partially privatizing the program, setting aside an unspecified portion of the payroll tax paid by employers into the fund, currently 12.4 percent of salaries, for individual retirement accounts. Workers would then have control over their own accounts, with the ability to invest in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, whatever - and make their golden years as golden as they possibly could. Bush argues that investors couldn't help but beat the 2 percent returns that the fund's current surpluses draw...
Alan Greenspan's implacable program of interest rate hikes may have its disbelievers in Congress and on the CNBC pundit scene, but the financial markets are not among the heretics. So it was that Wall Street continued to rally as the Fed voted to raise short-term rates not just 25 but 50 basis points at its meeting Tuesday, the latest attempt to hamstring the swaggering U.S. economy just enough to keep inflation at bay. Businesses, especially capital-intensive ones like the dot-coms, have no love of more expensive money. But Father Greenback has sold the markets...
Suspicion fell quickly on a possible culprit in the Philippines, in part because the virus' eight pages of computer code contained a tantalizing word: Barok. A search of virus registries quickly revealed that it was the name of a so-called Trojan horse, a stealthy software program that filches passwords, written by a Filipino hacker last year. Still, the transparency of this clue suggested that the word might have been inserted as a deliberate smoke screen to fool the computer sleuths. By week's end, the work of investigators was further complicated by the appearance of a number of copycat...
...only are the program's wrangles topical, but they also hew closely to the actual debates in Washington instead of giving us Hollywood's usual cartoon version. That's not out of civic obligation, the showmen insist, it's just that reality is entertaining. "The farther you get away from the truth of those debates, the softer the drama is going to be," says Sorkin, who also created and writes the ABC series Sports Night. For a political edge, he relies on consultants like Caddell and former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers, who describes Sorkin's approach as "Give...
...MAIL It's almost Mother's Day. Got a card yet? Not to worry--in the computer age, filial devotion is easier than it used to be. Sierra Online and Hallmark have just released a new program called Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe ($49.99) with which you can print Hallmark Cards at home on your PC. Still too much work? Then drag your lazy self to a website called getacard.com where you can personalize, order and send actual paper Mother's Day cards without leaving your desk chair. And would it kill you to call once in a while...