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...dollars will be hardest hit. Ironically, the AMT was designed to close loopholes for the very rich. What can you do about it? Money Daily reports that lawmakers decided not to tackle the worsening situation because the media and taxpayer groups have not been vocal about it. So you may want to stop browsing the Web for a minute to e-mail your congressperson...
...when you look a little closer at these findings, they start to seem a bit murky. To begin with, observes Dr. Den Trumbull, a Montgomery, Ala., pediatrician who is vocal in the spanking debate, the mothers ranged in age from 14 to 21. That is hardly a representative slice of American motherhood. Moreover, those who spanked did so on average twice a week. These factors, says Trumbull, plus the fact that some of the kids were as old as nine, "are markers of a dysfunctional family in my mind, and in the minds of most psychologists and pediatricians...
...music; after suffering cardiac arrest during a trip to Britain to seek medical treatment for chronic liver and weight problems; in London. For 600 years, Khan's family had been singers in the qawwali tradition, a style that built layer upon layer of increasingly intense music that demanded ferocious vocal control and culminated in whirling peaks of ecstasy. Khan not only revived qawwali's popularity in his native Pakistan but also, after being lured into recording the sound track for The Last Temptation of Christ by the British rock musician Peter Gabriel, began attracting an international following. Besides recording...
...what's left? A terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song's mood, to Bing Crosby than to any top singer of the past 30 years. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of It's Now or Never, the final detonation of pain and taunt in Are You Lonesome Tonight?, the choir-soloist power of the hymn He Touched Me--his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus--these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas...
...image and re-establish him as a powerful, pioneering vocalist." Corliss is happy to report that it does. "The impulse to sing raunchy, corny, beautiful songs trapped Elvis," he writes. Still, before the decline, we had in a young Elvis "a terrific crooner who was closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song?s mood, to Bing Crosby than to any singer of the past 30 years. In that trap, as this set proves, he found triumph." CINEMA: "After 40 years," writes Corliss, "Jean-Luc Godard can still astonish and amuse in the cinematic shorthand he virtually created...