Word: ideas
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...black, were living in Wisconsin, his name changed to E.H. Jefferson, the marking on the Census now white. The family would become successful members of the white middle class, winding up on social registries. For descendants like Julia Jefferson Westerinen, 64, of New York City, there would be no idea of the family legacy. For her a brush with blackness was befriending the maid or disciplining her daughter Dorothy for using the word nigger...
...people will pay top dollar for something free and plentiful, he opened O2, an oxygen bar, which offers patrons a mouthful of oxygen-enriched air for $13 a hit (laced with lemon or lime, it costs an extra $2). Brilliant as it is, it's not as good an idea as the SunSpot, a round towel on which beach goers could rotate themselves to remain in the sun's direct light throughout the course of the day. Sadly, the towels never caught on, nor did the all-hemp suit Harrelson had designer Giorgio Armani create for the 1997 Oscars. Undeterred...
...welfare, but slipped off the national radar screen when that reform was enacted." Molly Ivins, in her syndicated column, wrote, "To what depth, breadth and height can corporate welfare reach?...Barlett and Steele not only dug out the answers, they dug out still more astonishing information...This is my idea of extraordinary political journalism--investigating the real effects of politics on our lives." The third installment of the series, on corporate welfare's environmental costs, appears in this week's issue...
...that love is what makes life worth living--which is pretty much the message of every American movie that isn't about staying true to your dreams. For some religious groups, which have often complained that Hollywood ignores spiritual themes, this easygoing faith is a mixed blessing. "The idea that people are interested in spiritual things, that there's this longing for something beyond ourselves, is positive. But we have a problem with theological error," explains Bob Smithouser, who writes movie reviews for Plugged In, a publication of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. His critique of What...
...humiliating because it presumes lawmakers can be bought for a pittance. And some current committee chairmen, faced with losing power in just two years, are suddenly seeing the value in accruing the wisdom and effectiveness that only a long tenure can provide. They want the term limits revoked. Another idea being floated: a pay raise for House members, something Livingston has supported in the past. But lawmakers shouldn't get their hopes up. Said a G.O.P. official on Capitol Hill, referring to the idea of revoking term limits for committee chairmen: "That'll fly like a lead Zeppelin...