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...nation’s politicians. In return for young Americans’ demonstration of commitment to the political process, the candidates need to publicly and directly address issues that appeal to younger voters, including college tuition support and the military draft. But politicians also need to spell out in plainer terms how today’s complex decisions about taxes and social security funding will ultimately affect the up-and-coming generation’s tax burden in the future...
...sometimes you get the feeling he just wants to talk. The king of Fed-speak is speaking plainer and plainer these days - rarely has Greenspan's congressional testimony been so transparent as it was Wednesday. Certainly his customary subtlety must seem a less necessary precaution when the markets are immersed in their own problems - particularly this week, as some 1,500 earnings reports compete with Greenspan for prominence on Wall Street's list of designated tea leaves. But there's something almost plaintive in the way the Most Famous Fed Chairman in History keeps recounting his latest bout with...
...letters published here for Memorial Day evoke the same emotion in a plainer poetry of their own. Dating from World War I through the Vietnam conflict, they are the last letters the soldier-authors are known to have written, living testimonials from ordinary men who only suspected they were about to die. There is no vainglory of war in these missives, just the eternal mystery of man's preference for the call to arms over the Golden Rule. These epistles haunt the soul the same way the best war poems do--perhaps even more poignantly, because we know what their...
...turned out, in his own politics Rockwell was a liberal, which could be guessed from the understated plea for tolerance that so many of his pictures make. In the 1960s, when he left the Post for Look magazine, he turned to producing plainer public statements like The Problem We All Live With, a bare rectangle in which a black girl is chaperoned by federal Marshals as she tries to integrate a Southern school. Public rhetoric was never Rockwell's strength. But he brings such a hard-lit, neoclassical calm to this moment that the remnants of a tomato smashed against...
...only one Chanel." In fact, there were many Coco Chanels, just as her work had many phases and many styles, including Gypsy skirts, over-the-top fake jewelry and glittering evening wear--made of crystal and jet beads laid over black and white georgette crepe--not just the plainer jersey suits and "little black dresses" that made her famous. But probably the single element that most ensured Chanel's being remembered, even when it would have been easier to write her off, is not a piece of clothing but a form of liquid gold--Chanel...