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...Republican moderates decided to spare neophyte Speaker Dennis Hastert the embarrassment. In exchange for a hastily scrawled amendment tying the later years of a 10-year, $792 billion tax cut to promised reductions in the national debt, the "Hell no" folks said "What the heck" and climbed aboard a GOP ship that, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, won?t sail very far anyway. "If Clinton got this as the final bill, he?d veto it," he says. "This is merely an opening gambit for the most ravenous tax-cutters in the party ?- Bill Archer & Co. in the House...
...music sounds like the future and the past. Shivery acoustic guitar on top of spare, steady percussion with a high, husky voice piercing through it all. "In high seas or low seas/ I'm gonna be your friend..." Something about that voice--tremulous, tender, tough--recalls Bob Marley, more than a little bit. But check out the album credits. It's actually Stephen, one of Bob's sons, performing a remake of his father's classic High Tide or Low Tide. The song is one of many bewitching moments on Spirit of Music, the latest CD by Ziggy Marley (another...
...Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers in 1964, Last Kiss is on the compilation album No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees. Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder decided to cover the tune after finding a 45 of it in an antiques store. It's a spare, morose song with Vedder's voice warbling lovelorn over a straight-ahead drum beat. Going back to basics has put Pearl Jam back...
...worked and brought her roses nearly every week. He gave her a nice diamond when he proposed. Her parents loved him. They kept a neat home in spite of small salaries (she worked a cash register; he retreaded tires at a Goodyear plant). Now they had three bedrooms: one spare, one sheltering the shards of a marriage, one painfully bereft of a baby...
...women ages 18 to 49 who watch daytime dramas has declined 36%. Comparatively, the number in that group who watch prime-time network television has dropped 27%. Certainly women are more time-pressed than they were even a few years ago, and they are spending more of their spare time with cable TV and talk shows. But it could also be that their soap opera needs are being met elsewhere: not just on C-SPAN and Jerry Springer but on most nighttime dramas (and many sitcoms too), which now feature ongoing, relationship-focused story lines with will-they...