Word: code
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...pedantry. Reform, on the other hand, is a rubric under which people can toss all their small residual grievances, their nagging unsatisfied wants, whatever they are. Medicare? Gun control? Your failing school? Reform must be the answer. A revolutionary who promises to keep everything essential in place (the tax code, the military budget, the federal pension system) while promising to change everything--take our country back!--is the kind of revolutionary that Americans can get behind. Conservatives, liberals, moderates, across the board...
...neglected curiosities of this presidential-campaign season is how remarkably substantial and sophisticated it has been. The candidates have unloosed a blizzard of paper. There are fact sheets on child care, four-step plans to save Medicare, backgrounders on Medicaid reform and transportation subsidies and the tax code's deduction for dependent children. Down in Austin, Texas, Bush has assembled an entire shadow government of policy wonks to translate the gaseous cloud of his compassionate conservatism into the hard data of tax tables and impact studies...
...handle them--especially the ones that wear a friendly face: "Your kid is going to be exposed to values you don't like, kids you don't like and other parents you don't like," says Sagarese. "And by the end of adolescence, she will have adopted a code of values that will take her through life...
...admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that website obsession...
...call line. Now Ticketmaster has a better way--tickets you print yourself from ticketmaster.com Just order tickets online, ink-jet them at home, and head out on the town. You get your tickets right away and save on delivery charges. One catch: box offices first have to install bar-code scanners to prevent fraud...