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Call it the parent paradox: many of us love and respect the couple who reared us yet also resent the hell out of them. But social psychologist Susan Newman, author of Nobody's Baby Now (Walker & Co.), exhorts adult children to build a meaningful friendship with Mom and Dad. In researching her book, Newman interviewed 150 adults, ages 27 to 55, to investigate the tension between parents and children as they grow older. TIME spoke with Newman about barriers to a friendship with your folks and why it's critical to overcome the hurdles...
...faithful service, were once supposed to offer a dependable security blanket for millions of older Americans. Lately, though, pension-fund values have been devastated by stock market losses and historically low interest rates on fixed-income securities. "That's kind of a double whammy," says Comptroller General David Walker. Over the past 2 1/2 years alone, the total amount of underfunding of corporate plans--basically, the difference between what companies are projected to owe their retired workers and the size of corporate pension funds--has ballooned by more than $260 billion...
...Died. Johnny Walker, 79, Indian comedian who rose from bus conductor to Bollywood star; in Bombay. Walker, who took his stage name from a Scotch bottle, appeared in more than 300 movies...
...northern province of Navarre, injuring a passing van driver, again after a telephoned warning from someone claiming to represent ETA - By Jane Walker Kremlin Controversy RUSSIA The confrontation between the Kremlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned uglier, with the nation's richest man warning that hard-liners might level more charges against his Yukos oil corporation. Lawyers for Alexei Pichugin, the senior Yukos official detained on suspicion of murder, claimed investigators had spiked his coffee with drugs during interrogation. Meanwhile, a judge ruled to keep a key Khodorkovsky business associate, billionaire Platon Lebedev, in prison pending an investigation into embezzlement charges...
...tribunal, other protections of the civilian U.S. justice system would be denied them. They would be required to use a U.S. military lawyer, for example, and not allowed to see "secret" evidence. For the Brits, what especially rankles is the contrast between these suspects' treatment and that accorded John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" caught in Afghanistan like many Guantanamo inmates but given the full protections of a U.S. court. "Guantanamo is bad enough," says a British official, "but the worst thing is that we fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan and Iraq and suffered casualties, and in the aftermath...