Word: minimalistically
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...party leaders—including some presidential hopefuls—begun seriously backing plans for heightened military expenditures. It is time for Democrats to realize that their longtime blanket opposition to costly military programs has been misguided—and that there is a viable middle ground between the minimalist defense posture of Kennedy and the indiscriminate military spending of the current Administration. On the domestic front, the party must inject a greater degree of fiscal responsibility into existing social programs. It should not immediately bridle at calls to reassess existing entitlement funding, as the Kennedy wing has so often...
...Already two-time Palme d'Or winners for Rosetta in 1999 and L'Enfant in 2005, the Belgian brothers are back with another underclass minimalist melodrama, this time set in the polyglot city of Liege. An Albanian girl (Arta Dobroshi) is in an arranged marriage with a drug addict to get her ID; the scheme of the criminals who control her is to kill off the junkie so Lorna can be sold into marriage with a rich Russian who also needs an ID. The film is an improvement on the formulaic L'Enfantand boasts an impressively naturalistic performance by Dobroshi...
...arty one Whoever flies home to this minimalist pad must be high in the pecking order. FredriksonStallard designed it in solid oak with a cast-aluminum twig for Thorsten van Elten, the hip and humorous London furniture boutique. Any bird landing here is bound to know its Richard Serra from its Donald Judd. www.thorstenvanelten.com
...course, was the point. Or part of it. A big business is at stake here, and, notwithstanding Google's desire for you to "select world-class art that really reflects your personality," as Google VP Marissa Mayer wrote on her blog yesterday morning, getting people to move from minimalist Google Classic to iGoogle is a key strategic goal for the company. (And if it's possible to get the word Google into that sentence anymore than I did, I'll customize your homepage myself...
...such, the election seems to present an ideal opportunity to start from scratch, beginning at the most mundane level. It begins with a recognition of the hidden minimalist beauty of straightforward IRS paperwork. One could argue about the “optimal” level and structure of taxation, but the general direction of our tax legislation must be the one toward less complexity. Fred Thompson’s proposal may need to be fine-tuned, but it would be a crushing disappointment if the country missed an opportunity to reform a clumsy tax system that only hinders competition with...