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...With apologies to Joplin, I confess I can't resist picking out the melody on my right hand a few times before tackling the chords. Then I get down to business, spending hours and days making my left hand move from F major to D major to G minor. I consistently stumble over the two phrases "I'm broke/It's oke" because of the four tricky chords punching them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instant Piano for the Busy and Lazy | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

With apologies to Joplin, I confess I can't resist picking out the melody on my right hand a few times before tackling the chords. Then I get down to business, spending hours and days making my left hand move from F major to D major to G minor. I consistently stumble over the two phrases "I'm broke/It's oke" because of the four tricky chords punching them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instant Piano for the Busy and Lazy | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...widely expected to die without a separation - an operation that will likely end Mary's life. Friday, an anguished Appeals Court in London upheld a lower court's decision to separate the infants, ruling it is legal to end Mary's life in order to defend Jodie. "I freely confess to having found [the decision] truly difficult to reach," one Justice said at the conclusion of the case. "Difficult because of the scale of the tragedy for the parents and the twins, difficult for the seemingly irreconcilable conflicts of moral and ethical values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Agonizing Case Draws Closer to Conclusion | 9/22/2000 | See Source »

...malfeasance, and to be cheered on by a national media that ought, after all, to be shocked - shocked - by a Kafka-esque tale (replete with a law enforcement officer who lied shamelessly to the court) of a man held in solitary confinement for nine months to force him to confess a crime. Even President Clinton has slammed his attorney general's handling of the case, saying denying Wen Ho Lee bail and keeping him in solitary confinement as a threat to national security was rendered unjustified by the plea agreement the government accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Media Owe Wen Ho Lee a Mea Culpa? | 9/14/2000 | See Source »

...gurney--two leg manacles, two wristbands and one chest belt--making a horizontal cross, the only thing in Angola that isn't pointing toward either heaven or hell. Cain says he stayed quiet when he killed his first man and didn't give him a chance to confess and get right with God, and Cain felt him go to hell, felt it in his hand surer than anything he'd ever known, and it made him commit his life to Christ. "My wife, she doesn't like that she's married a killer," he says. "This is probably going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola, La.: The Lessons of Cain | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

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