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...anything, that is truly particular to her. Yet the only thing that most people think of doing is taking the person out to dinner and buying them drinks. Like the Qwerty keyboard, it does its job, even though the results may be less than they could have been. The simplest, clearest path of least resistance is the obvious choice; lack of mass motivation to learn Dvorak or plan a more interesting celebration takes care of the rest...
...concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water is where the eternal elements meet the here and now. When he rides an elevated subway car, he sees a cramped rectangle that's a public square, where people sign the air every time they stretch. And in the simplest black churches he recognizes that rapture is democratic, that a scuffed room is sanctified by the supreme projection of human needs in God's general direction. What he's saying is that the city is a place requiring courage and cunning. And that it's graceland...
...yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...
Perhaps the argument gaining the most attention, though, is the oldest and simplest: Why should we pay money to solve other people's problems, especially when we have so many problems of our own? Although one could argue against this on the basis of a moral duty to help other human beings in need of aid, there are more prgamatic arguments...
...crystallizing issues to advocate causes from civil rights to environmental protection. An architect of Harry S Truman's 1948 election victory, he later counseled winding down the Vietnam War as Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary. Says TIME's Hugh Sidey: "He had a genius for reducing things to their simplest terms but fell to a tragic and false sense of invulnerability." Clifford's chairmanship of a bank embroiled in international scandal led to 1992 criminal charges that were dropped because of his age and frailty...