Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the years no social issue has looked so easy and proved so hard to resolve. It looked easy because merely building houses is simpler than, say, curing a deadly disease or cleansing a polluted ocean or handing out hope to the poor. But it turned out to be a nettlesome problem, for homelessness is not the same as houselessness. Each disaster has its own genealogy; the problems of the street people only begin with the need for shelter. Perhaps that is because homelessness is a symptom of every other social ill: drugs, crime, poverty, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy, violence, even...
...much simpler than that. Every book in Widener library is a potential target of theft. You needn't even be that clever or devious to steal books from Harvard; it's as easy as walking out the door...
...winter finery. The New York City Ballet will have George Balanchine's exquisitely aristocratic Russian version (where dance aficionados often get their first chance to see new corps members perform solos). Across the river in Brooklyn, a new offshoot of the Bolshoi Ballet will show off its own simpler production. The Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle will feature Maurice Sendak's charming sets, and the Houston Ballet will move the family into a turn-of-the-century farmhouse and scale down their bourgeois comforts (presents will be homey food). Sleighs, as usual, will be the favorite transport...
...plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism: "How you wear your hair speaks of the inner self." The message may be simpler. For many men, it may just be "I don't have to put up with haircuts anymore." The tyke who protested when he was first lifted into a barber's chair may be the ponytailed man in the power pinstripe suit who has a big chair...
...government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...