Retirement age rise eyed to shore up Social Security
An Advisory Council report favors raising the full-benefit retirement age to 67 by 2011 to help avert long term insolvency. The plan would trim benefits as life expectancy rises, while investment and tax reforms draw mixed support. Eight of thirteen members back the acceleration, arguing longer work lives boost payroll taxes.
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Advisory Council On Social Security
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A New Year Brings Opportunity To Give and Grow
The column urges embracing a new year as a chance to grow through giving. Don Taylor reflects on values shifting from wealth to relationships, citing Truett Cathy and the widow's mites to stress sacrificial giving as true success. He hopes readers make 1997 meaningful by giving more and seeking happiness through generosity.
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Truett Cathy
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Christ
Don Taylor
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First Lady Hillary Clinton Contends for Grammy Nod
Hillary Rodham Clinton is among nominees for best spoken word or non musical album for It Takes a Village. Spokeswoman Marsha Berry confirms the first lady is thrilled by the nomination announced Tuesday. The book has sold 461,000 copies after 10 printings and earned $742,000 in royalties donated to children's hospitals.
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Alfre Woodard
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Lauren Bacall
Martin Landau
Jack Lemmon
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Celebrities clash with photographers and lawsuits roll on
A roundup from Rio to London reports Hugh Grant’s outburst at Brazilian photographers during a Rio Modern Art Museum visit amid a Latin tour for Extreme Measures. Nora and Delia Ephron discuss angels in Michael, while Martin Lawrence faces a harassment suit from Tisha Campbell and Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher receives a caution after a November arrest for small drug possession.
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Delia Ephron
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John Travolta
Nora Ephron
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Liam Gallagher
Oasis
Gallagher
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