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...Life is Sweet! Nice to Meet You.” No two tracks sound even vaguely similar and this serves to liven up a lyrically simple album. When this music isn’t enough to carry the song, though, the lyrics are too thin to pick up the burden, and the track quickly falls flat. Most choruses are excessively simple—eight or nine word phrases that are repeated over and over again for the length of time necessary between equally short verses...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lightspeed Champion | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...this bursting energy that's out there." And while several conservatives said they believed Tea Partyers would naturally align under the conservative banner, they cautioned that the movement's support could not be taken for granted. "These new people distrust everybody," Keene says. "Republicans are carrying the burden and the baggage of the last time they were in power. People remember that. They have to be very careful about being consistent this time around if they want these people to rally to their cause electorally." While Sarah Palin has urged Tea Party independents to "I guess, start picking a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a New Manifesto Woo the Tea Party? | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...raise $1.67 billion in the short term by cracking down on tax evasion. The government has promised a radical reform of the country's complex and inefficient tax system and says a comprehensive new law, which is intended both to simplify the system and to spread the tax burden more fairly, will be presented this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Times in Greece | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...mother's health was failing. Most of us do not have the Cleavers or the Bradys for relatives. "Family craziness" is a major reason people move away in the first place. When my mother's health started deteriorating, one of my sisters chose to take on the caregiving burden. Being separated geographically was my decision, made years beforehand. No one will make me feel guilty for not dealing with relatives I don't like being around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...Beneath all of the posturing is a hard reality for Democrats: with historic majorities in both houses of Congress, the President's own party shoulders the primary burden for passing legislation. Disagreements between Democrats have so far been major stumbling blocks to passing health care reform, as have apparent disagreements between House and Senate Democrats over the shape of financial regulatory reform. "The big question on health care is whether it is better to ask the Democrats who voted for this once to go home and defend that vote without a piece of legislation or ask them to vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and GOP Jockey for (Bi)partisan Advantage | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

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