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...quiet Saturday afternoon, and I was at my benefits-consulting firm without the distraction of a ringing telephone and co-workers wandering into my office. I was there redesigning the retirement program for one of our bank clients. As I was considering the bank's goals, I was drawn to Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. Seeking a tax break and an edge over its competitors, the bank wanted to replace its cash-bonus plan with a deferred-profit-sharing plan under which employees wouldn't have access to the money until they left the bank. I realized...
...their verdict: Orenthal James Simpson was not guilty of the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. On the streets of African-American neighborhoods and the campuses of black colleges, we high-fived total strangers in jubilation. In white communities, we sat in quiet shock or vocal disgust. On radio shows, we hailed the acquittal of the black former football hero as payback for years of police racism, and we condemned the decision as a simple case of money buying freedom. At New York City's Rikers Island prison, we broke into applause, guards...
Charlie Rock Company's patch of desert has been quiet for 24 hours when First Sergeant William Mitchell hears something on the radio. His face stiffens with the information. He leans out of the wind into his half-track, wincing at the sandstorm whipping around his face from the rear. He grabs his M-4 assault rifle and halfway out of the track's back door yells at his master gunner, Sergeant Robert Jones, "You need to call HQ right now and tell them we have 10 men, 200 meters to the north, with AKs and RPGs." Jones jumps...
Though all end the same way, each case of Alzheimer's announces itself uniquely. Sue Miller's The Story of My Father (Knopf; 174 pages) starts with a phone call. The police have found her father knocking on strangers' doors at 3 in the morning. A quiet, spiritual man, he had been a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, but within months he was barely keeping it together in a nursing home. Miller notes his cerebral short circuits with stricken fascination. He began to mistake his shadow for "a strange black animal dogging him," and he could find only the food...
There is recent precedent for this. In 1999 the U.S. knew that Russia would veto any resolution authorizing the use of force against Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo, and so the Security Council was skipped. But quiet negotiations with the Russians--before the first bombs fell--produced an agreement that established the U.N. as the immediate source of humanitarian aid and civil authority after the war (the Russians even agreed to be part of the peacekeeping force). And now the U.N. is quietly planning humanitarian aid for post-Saddam Iraq. There is some debate about who will manage the oil supply...