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ALTMAN: Small employers are the most screwed. That's the plainest English I could make...
...President handled calls with friends such as the Presidents of France and Italy, and he spoke twice to President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Powell and his staff handled the trickier negotiations. State Department sources tell TIME that the U.S. has asked Pakistan for use of its ports, the plainest indication that Washington intends a substantial military action against Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan. Sources also tell TIME that the Administration is considering reaching out to both Libya and Iran for assistance, even though both nations have themselves sponsored terrorism in the past. The State Department, working through...
...that we talk about the "cutting edge" in America, the plainest evidence of mastery comes from men and women who have thought hard about the past and whose work builds ingeniously but simply upon it. The choreographer Susan Stroman is a living repository of Broadway dance history. The excellence of Cassandra Wilson is a function of her mastery of the canon of the jazz vocal that she so beautifully extends...
...movie when I was at the party last night. "American" makes me think of things that are simple and plain, whereas "beauty" is more alluring, and exciting. When I think of "American Beauty," maybe it's this idea: finding the simple beauty of life, finding beauty in the plainest things, and in just being alive...
...what about Currier?, you may ask. No gracious red brick exterior, no view even of the Quad. The plainest and most charmless of the Quad houses? The most graceless of all the Harvard houses? Well, yes, if you're passionately attached to the image of ivy-covered brick (and centipedes), white moldings, fireplaces and winding stairs. What Currier has instead: a cozy, bright, immaculate look (it's even cleaner than Pforzheimer); cheerful carpeting and comfortable chairs and sofas tucked in every nook and corner of the house; the most pleasant dining hall on campus, always sociable but never noisy, completed...