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...requiring governments to itemize health-care spending and forecast costs for coming years. The change in bookkeeping will either set off a wave of tax increases, reductions in government services or both. Lest anyone think state and local retirement-plan sponsors may emulate those in corporate America and simply walk away from the promised health-care benefits, think again. More than once, courts have ruled that health benefits promised to government workers (among them judges and legislators)--unlike those promised to workers in private industry--must be honored...
...check bounced. A corporate-takeover artist, later sent to prison for ripping off a pension fund and other financial improprieties, had stripped down the business and forced it into the U.S. bankruptcy court. There the obligation was erased, thanks to congressional legislation that gives employers the right to walk away from agreements with their employees. To support herself, Whitehouse had already sold the couple's Montana home and moved to the Salt Lake City area, where she had family and friends. With her savings running out, she applied early (at a reduced rate) for her husband's Social Security...
...truth is that Phoenix is warm, polite and, yes, quite dull--perhaps even willfully so. Unlike other aspiring leading men, Phoenix, 31, is intent on being a nonentity off-screen. He does not talk about whom he might be dating, walk red carpets or volunteer dilettantish political opinions. His brother was River Phoenix, the icon of lost potential, but he refuses to discuss any feelings he has about River's 1993 death from a drug overdose. Joaquin is humble and self-deprecating, although not comically so, and when pressed to reveal anything about himself, he often retreats into incoherence...
...interesting actor. Gus Van Sant (To Die For), Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and M. Night Shyamalan (Signs, The Village) all fought to cast him in crucial supporting roles, and on Nov. 18, Phoenix will finally get to show what he can do with a movie on his shoulders. In Walk the Line, he plays and sings the life story of the late Johnny Cash opposite Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash. "I should have a good answer for why I wanted to play him," says Phoenix. "An answer about his life and the impact he had on American music...
Phoenix dropped out of school after ninth grade and finished his teens traveling in Latin America. When he returned to acting five years later, he earned raves as the mumbling killer in To Die For and an Oscar nod for his weaselly turn as Commodus in Gladiator. Walk the Line director James Mangold says both performances were seared into his memory. He noted that Phoenix looked like the young Johnny Cash, but he was more intrigued by another resemblance. "That incredible vulnerability and masculinity that James Dean had," says Mangold, "Joaq has the same thing. His face is complicated...