Word: simpler
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...wince. It was not Henry Huet's eerie shot of a U.S. paratrooper's corpse being winched up to a medevac helicopter. Nor was it Larry Burrows' celebrated photo of a young soldier weeping for dead colleagues after his first day of bloody combat. No, it was a much simpler photo: of a mangled Leica camera, probably Burrows', unearthed from a Lao hillside where he, Huet and two other legendary combat photographers-Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto-died in a helicopter crash in 1971. As one friend shuddered, "If that's what happened to the Leica...
...Tasaday story created an immediate sensation, first as an allegory representing our yearning for a more peaceful, simpler time and then as a symbol of our own gullibility. In 1971, as a terrible war dragged on in Southeast Asia, a Stone Age tribe was discovered living in total seclusion in the Philippine rain forest. The Tasaday were gentle folk whose language lacked even a word for war. They dressed in loincloths and skirts made of orchid leaves, slept in picturesque caves and lived off the land on a diet consisting of fruit, fish and insects. NBC Evening News broke...
Though last year’s policy changes made things simpler, Alston said, the process remains too complicated, and still involves too many meetings and forms...
Klein called the President's rhetoric "bleak" and "simple," with even simpler ideas. Bush's ideas, however, have resulted in freeing millions from horrible oppression in less than a month. If this is simplistic, count me in. Bush knows his limits and so has selected the strongest and smartest Cabinet and best advisers in many a presidency. ROBERT STERN Lima, Ohio...
...that, Gephardt says, is precisely why he's betting his presidential campaign on a costly plan to provide health care to the 41 million Americans who now lack it. Why does Gephardt think his proposal can succeed where Clinton's failed? "I wanted something that was much simpler, that threatened fewer groups and would be seen as fair," he told TIME. Gephardt's plan retains the most controversial part of Clinton's: a requirement that every employer provide coverage for every worker. In return the government would give employers a tax credit worth 60% of what they have spent...