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...Order” with a single click, and zip through boring acceptance speeches and overly familiar opening sequences (after all, one can only watch Sarah Jessica Parker’s little pink tutu get splattered by mud so many times). Far superior and simpler than the VCR, it also discerns its viewers’ television-watching habits to record shows it thinks he or she would like, and does away with the frustrating task of having to stare down a blinking...
...vote, or at least not the four-legged kind. When the Saharawi kids come to Spain on holidays they get wide-eyed at the sight of the sea, of traffic, television, plates piled high with food, toys. The host families often find they have learned a lot about simpler pleasures, about resilience, dignity in adversity, and the strength of family. At this level at least, Europe has much to offer Africa, and vice versa. The rest, sadly, is the parsley of international diplomacy, which too often crunches down to a shorter word - idiocy...
...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July, Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day in 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with overtones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear. In the tug of war for the nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope... Some, mostly the defiant young, blow...
...there are simpler things to attend to. Night is falling, and Newdow has to call his daughter. "Hey, sugar, it?s Daddy," he whispers into the phone. "Love you, miss you, kiss you goodnight." A burly teenager knocks at the door. "Are you the man?" he says. Newdow concedes that he probably is. "You don?t have to worry about anything," says the unknown teen. "Okay," Newdow smiles as he closes the door, "now I'm worried." And he sits back down with his guitar, singing a song he penned himself - the Pledge Of Allegiance Got Some Old Religion Blues...
Such jaunts take these sports lovers back to the glory days of baseball's legendary players--and to their own youth. "The fans in this age group are reminded of a simpler time in their lives," says Laurel Prieb, vice president of marketing for the Milwaukee Brewers. "There's just such a romance to baseball that makes this kind of vacation especially appealing...