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...heart. But he had a true fan in Jones, helped in part by the fact that Dickens was one of the more welcoming stars on hand when the Possum made his Opry debut in 1956. And so when Jones was under pressure in the early '60s to churn out record after record for his new label, United Artists, he chose to do a tribute to Dickens. He has paid several complete-disc homages to other singers (Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Leon Payne among them), but this one, originally released in 1964, is the most successful. Maybe because...
...Flavored with organ and pedal steel guitar, the performances explore a range of sultry rhythms with an assured, relaxed warmth perfectly suited to Williams' stylized, empathic singing. Indeed, it's hard to come away from this record without feeling that one has been in the presence of an exceptionally compassionate, tactile individual. The songs speak of serendipity, optimism and love, and many of them have people's names in the title; for Williams, making connections and spreading good karma is clearly as primal an urge as making music, and is actually undistinguishable therefrom. One of the album's major achievements...
Moreover, although Bush only began to use the word "fuzzy'' recently, his record as governor of Texas demonstrates a long and storied history of unfuzzy policy decisions. For example, in the spring of 1999, he pushed a $2 billion tax cut through the Texas legislature, a move which he has often trumpeted as evidence of his opposition to taxation. In fact, this was a spectacular example of unfuzzy policy: The cut, which came mostly out of property and sales taxes, was directed straight at the wealthiest Texans, and was financed in part by a $250 million cut in the education...
...Crimson will need to play its hardest in order to beat No. 7 Princeton. The Tigers have posted a 42-1 record in the Ivy League since...
...mistake" to which Clinton alludes probably has more to do with the election than with foreign policy. A neck-and-neck electoral race in Florida has seen both the White House and the Bush campaign dutifully endorsing the embargo to the hilt, but few administration officials speaking off the record are prepared to defend its soundness as a policy, while most of the wise men of Republican administrations past assembled as foreign policy advisers by Governor Bush have called for a review of the embargo. The Clinton administration's previous moves toward relaxing the embargo were torpedoed...