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...what makes a person. For the Reformation, when Kurt Cobain, my own (private?) Martin Luther, nailed his lyrics to the door and changed what I thought about music (hell, before that, I owned both Wilson Phillips albums), not the Counter-Reformation that restored orthodoxy and maturity. It was simpler then. Before Trent and all that. Before I became Pollyanna. I know a lot of it may be just pose, but I walk by the Pit kids and I’m envious of the certainty of their musical allegiances...
...least 25 states simplify their own multiple tax rates. A coalition of retailers and mall-owners, including Wal-Mart, is lobbying for sales taxes to apply equally to all sales, and 32 state legislatures have already begun to get together to try to pave the way to a simpler national sales-tax picture. Tech companies, meanwhile, have begun to soften - as long as compliance burdens are reasonable. Says committee chairman John McCain: "I think we're very close to agreement...
...Happily married with four appropriately cherubic daughters and wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of his California boyhood, the 43-year-old Kinkade is frank about his artistic goals. "The paintings have an agenda," he says. "The agenda is that a simpler way of living is a better way of living. That family is and should be the foundation for our way of life. That love is better than hate, that beauty is better than ugliness. I call it the lifestyle of light...
...strolled into the Oval Office, Bush was concentrating on the logistics of getting the crew home. The difficult diplomacy of selling the Chinese on an artfully limited U.S. apology was, thankfully, behind him. He could begin chewing over simpler problems. How long would it take to refuel the pickup plane in China? What would be the flight path? How long would the plane be on the ground? "He was very aware that we had to be careful in what we said while the crew was still on the ground," says senior aide Dan Bartlett...
...strolled into the Oval Office, Bush was concentrating on the logistics of getting the crew home. The difficult diplomacy of selling the Chinese on an artfully limited U.S. apology was, thankfully, behind him. He could begin chewing over simpler problems. How long would it take to refuel the pickup plane in China? What would be the flight path? How long would the plane be on the ground? "He was very aware that we had to be careful in what we said while the crew was still on the ground," says senior aide Dan Bartlett...