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" For years, we labored to log into our computers, marvels of technology, with an unnecessarily complicated, carpal-tunnel-inducing combination of three f-king buttons. Control+Alt+Delete. For years, our nation refused to allow gay marriage, when there was never any good reason to do so. But, the wonderful thing about being wrong is that you can always get right, even years later. &amp;quot;It was a mistake,&amp;quot; admitted a wryly-laughing Bill Gates, billionaire Microsoft founder turned philanthropist, coming clean on the awkward three-finger shuffle that was a critical part of Windows. &amp;quot;We could have had a single button.&amp;quot; While the multi-key combination is now no doubt firmly ingrained into PC user&amp;#039;s genetic muscle memory, it turns out that the whole digit dance could have been avoided had it not been for a stubborn IBM keyboard designer&amp;#039;s refusal to give them that extra key. Also this week, up in the final frontier that is Maine, former president George HW Bush got right without any public words at all. Defying the stance taken by his son, the other ex-president Bush, who had called upon Congress to pass a bill &amp;quot;defining and protecting marriage as a union of man and woman,&amp;quot; Bush Sr. bore witness at the wedding of two of his long-time friends. Dressed in a suit and mismatched socks -- hey, the guy&amp;#039;s pushing 90, it&amp;#039;s charming -- he made his views clear with a swift stroke of the pen, signing their marriage certificate with a big smile on his face. No grandstanding, no press agent giving it spin, no talk show tour apr\u00E8s-wedding, just a subtle acknowledgement of the evolution of values and acceptance in our country. While it&amp;#039;s true that after-the-fact admissions don&amp;#039;t always repair whatever damage may have been wrought, there&amp;#039;s something to be said for the willingness of a man to accept responsibility or at least acknowledge the error of their ways. We can only hope more great men man up and follow suit. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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