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The Olympic gold medal–winning ice dancer, 27, is now a contestant on Dancing With the Stars (ABC, Mondays). How is it competing against Charlie White, your skating partner? It’s something fun we’re going through together, so it’s very good-natured. Were you nervous before performing? With skating I’m always nervous. But here there were no nerves, shockingly. Which DWTS contestant were you excited to meet? I was a Full House fan, so it was surreal to meet Candace Cameron Bure. She’s so nice! People have been saying you look like Disney’s Princess Jasmine. I take that as a compliment. I’ve always been a huge Princess Disney fan, more than Jasmine your average little girl. Where is your gold medal? In my bag next to me. People ask that we bring them, so we keep them close.

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The English phrase “begging the question” is a descriptive (not literal) translation of the Latin term petitio principii, one of the logical fallacies that were identified and classified by scholars several centuries ago. The fallacy is also known as “circular reasoning”; it refers to the error of basing one’s conclusion on an assumption, often a form of the conclusion. “That begs the question,” is a complete statement. No question follows. The phrase was first misused by unwitting speakers who were trying to sound learned, but as more listeners repeated the blunder, it became so common that the term began to acquire a new meaning: “raises the question,” followed by a question. At this point, I recommend dropping the expression from your vocabulary entirely, for two reasons. One, if you use it correctly, almost no one will understand you, and if you explain, you’ll sound pedantic. It would be better to use the term “circular reasoning.” And two, if you intend the newer meaning, why not simply say “raises the question”? It makes more sense and sounds better. Why “begs” the question?!

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From personal tragedy to the top of the charts, Luke Bryan has lived a life worthy of any great country song. But for this superstar, the road started in a small town called Leesburg, Ga. “Everything you see is ingrained in my music and who I am as a person,” he says. By Matt Hendrickson

uke Bryan is going nuts. “Hush, dogs!” he says to the two small, excited canines who are yapping and running in crazy circles in the wellkept yard of his childhood home in Leesburg, Ga. “How in the world did they get out?” Bryan lets the dogs back in the house, then stands in the doorway as he checks in with his father, Tommy, who still lives there. The light yellow, two-story home, with swimming pool in back, is a short walk from the processing plant where Bryan spent countless hours as a teen prepping and drying out farm-fresh peanuts.

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1. “I grew up ﬁshing,” says Bryan (at Muckalee Creek), “and writing songs about it.” 2. A sign leading into Leesburg touts the area’s famous sons. 3. Bryan worked long hours at this peanut processing plant. “We’d dry ’em, clean ’em, and store ’em,” he says.

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he pecans might have seen better days, but right now, Luke Bryan’s world is one bountiful harvest. The 37-year-old is country’s newest superstar, winning the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year award in 2013 (he and Blake Shelton return to cohost the 2014 event, airing live tonight; they’re both nomi nated again for the top honor). His latest and fourth album, Crash My Party, sold more than 500,000 copies its first week, and tickets to his current That’s My Kind of Night tour have been gobbled up like kegs at a frat party. Bryan— who was a Sigma Chi while attending Georgia Southern University, where he earned a degree in business management—also just played two annual free shows in Panama City Beach, Fla., in conjunction with the release of his digital EP Spring Break 6 ... Like We Ain’t Ever, bashes that attracted more than 230,000 revelers. “It’s gotten kind of insane,” he says in his Georgia drawl. “It’s not even organized chaos. It’s just chaos.” But there’s a glimmer in his eye: Anarchy or not, he loves it. And so do his fans. Bryan, whose songs focus heavily on partying, fishing, and drinking— usually in the company of a beauti-ful girl—has become a

1. Family time last year with his wife, Caroline, and sons Tate (left) and Bo. 2. With his beloved siblings, brother Chris (left) and sister Kelly. 3. Luke (at about age 6) was an avid ballplayer, and even today he favors baseball caps over cowboy hats. 4. Leesburg is 140 miles from Atlanta.

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Strolling back to his tour bus, parked in the field next to the family property, he stops under a pecan tree. “Want a Luke Bryan pecan?” he asks, fumbling with the shell only to find that the insides are rotten. He chucks it aside, saying matter-of-factly, “Looks like they ain’t doing too good.”

better have something else going on. I’ll shake it all night long.”

worthy successor to fill Kenny Chesney’s flip-flops, but he has an extra helping of appeal for the ladies. Case in point: the hipshaking social media GIFs that glorify Bryan’s posterior. “My wife and I laugh about it, because she always thought I had a flat [rear end] until I started working out,” he says, referring to Caroline, 33, whom he met in college and married in 2006. “Look, when you roll into a college bar bringing country music, you

ryan has been busting dance moves since he was a little boy in Leesburg. While his parents gave him 45s by Ronnie Milsap, his two older siblings turned him on to ’80s hits from Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. “Thriller was my first cassette; that was like currency,” he says. “At school I could moonwalk all the way to the pencil sharpener and back.” He was an average student, more interested in fishing and playing baseball. But he did have a knack for performing, singing in the choir at the First Baptist Church as well as school

productions like Annie Get Your Gun. Even then, he was the ultimate showman. “He could just fill up a room,” recalls Robby Davis, theater director at Lee County High School. On a gorgeous, unusually warm latewinter day, Bryan stands on the sidewalk in downtown Leesburg, a stretch that features a barber shop, two bail bonds offices, a gun store, a law firm, and an auto parts shop. The population is just shy of 3,000, but Leesburg has produced other famous sons besides Bryan, like San Francisco Giants All-Star catcher Buster Posey and American Idol winner Phillip Phillips. Many residents work in agriculture or in Albany, 10 miles away, where MillerCoors beer, Procter & Gamble, and Mars Chocolate NA have plants. “I loved growing up here,” Bryan says proudly. “It was black, white, Mexican. We’d all go out in the schoolyard and break-dance.” There’s a railroad track that unfortunately runs right through the town’s main intersection. “Man, if they had just put that

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track over there,” he says, pointing to the east toward the peanut plant, which his father co-owned until recently. He lights up when a local tells him there’s a plan to revitalize the area. “That’s really great. I’d love to see that happen.” Bryan has been on the street for only a few minutes but folks are already circling around. He graciously signs some autographs and takes a photo before getting into the driver’s seat of an SUV to call his wife, who’s close by with their two young sons, Bo and Tate. “Y’all go swimming?” he asks. “All right, love you.”

of the car. “He told me someone had called the house about me and my band playing a show.” It was Oct. 27, 1996, and Bryan was in Valdosta, Ga., seeing a girl he was dating when his older brother, Chris, was killed in a car accident. “Some of my parents’ friends drove to Valdosta to tell me and drive me back,” he recalls

to move to Nashville but stayed in Leesburg to support his family, working at the peanut plant during the day and playing bar gigs at night. He had been at home for a year or so when his dad gave him the green light. “He said, ‘I will fire you if you don’t go follow your dreams,’ ” recalls Bryan.

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e started writing songs for others, penning hits for Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. Eventually, Bryan got his own record deal and released his debut, I’ll Stay Me, in 2007. When he was invited that year to perform at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time, his older sister, Kelly, organized a big group to come up from Leesburg to see him play. A few weeks later, Kelly, 39, died suddenly at home while doing laundry. She was a healthy, vibrant wife and mother of two. Multiple autopsies were performed, but the cause of death remains a mystery. Bryan had to dig deep again, relying on his faith to get through another ordeal. “I knew at 3 o’clock I would walk to the funeral home and at 3:05 I would

acking up the car, he heads south on Highway 19 to Muckalee Creek, where he spent much of his free time fishing and which inspired several of his songs, including “Muckalee Creek Water” (whose lyrics reference “no sign of the city lights”). He drives down a dirt road that’s sheltered by live oak and cypress trees with Spanish moss, stopping at the edge of the creek. The water is still and muddy today, but during the spring and summer months it becomes clearer, making just the right conditions to cast for catfish and bass while keeping an eye out for alligators. Fishing was a family affair: “Being a Bryan,” he says, “you’re predestined to be a fisherman.” But not all of his hometown memories are idyllic. He passes his high school, from which he graduated in 1996, and his church before pointing to a street corner. “That’s the last place I saw my brother alive,” he says. It’s as if the air has been sucked out

quietly. “Man, I’ve had a billion emotions around all that. You never quite get over it. But I do believe that when my brother was born, God allocated him 26 years. It was his time.” “Luke’s faith has never wavered; he’s very resilient,” says his friend and bandmate Michael Hastings. “You want life to ease up for him, but his drive and determination— it’s hard not to grab ahold of that and get fired up.” Sadly, Bryan’s parents had more difficulty dealing with the tragedy and were divorced two years later. “They got pretty jacked up,” is all Bryan wants to say about the tension that arose. He’d planned

see her,” he says. “I was nauseated all day. But when I walked in there, I felt like a pressure valve had been released. It was a sense of calm— not what I expected. My mother didn’t feel [that way], and it breaks my heart. She was just devastated.” Kelly’s children still live in Leesburg and have buoyed Bryan’s spirits through the years. “I remember my brother through a pair of his golf shoes I have,” he says, “but with my sister, I can hug her kids.” He says he doesn’t write songs about specific people or situations, but he has performed his smash “Drink a Beer” as an unequivocal tribute to his siblings. “My sister was drink-a-few-beerson-the-back-porch perfect,” he says fondly. “The emotion of that loss ... so many people have been right there. Sitting on a dock drinking a beer with your dad or granddad—it’s such an honest connection.” It’s mid-afternoon and Bryan is back in his bus, looking to meet up with his wife and boys so they can drive home to Tennessee, where the family lives outside of Nashville on a 150-acre farm replete with a man-made lake for fishing. He’ll have two days to chill there before heading out for another show. He makes it down to Leesburg about once a year and cherishes the values and experiences that were formed as a kid there. “I love the foundation of this town. It’s still very much the same, which puts a smile on my face,” he says. “But I also love the knowledge that comes from visiting this whole country. I want to be a positive person for everybody. As long as my voice feels good and I ain’t sick, I have the best time with every day.”

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Boomers vs. millennials? Nah. In many ways, these two generations are on the same page. By Paul Taylor

our weeks ago, I turned 65, along with 10,000 other b aby boomers. Another 10,000 will cross that threshold tomorrow. This will keep happening every single day b etween now and 2030. We don’t know what old age holds for us individually, but demographers and economists have a pretty good idea about what this gray tsunami means for our country. By the time every boomer is collecting Social Security and Medicare, those two programs are projected to eat up about half our entire federal budget—and both the Social Security trust fund and one of Medicare’s two trust funds will be broke. That’s because the ratio of taxpayers to retirees will have fallen to its lowest level ever, about 2 to 1. (When Social Security first went into effect, the ratio was more than 20 to 1.) But renegotiating the social contract between the generations will be a tall order, because these days, young and old in America don’t look alike, act alike, or vote alike. The young—America’s socalled millennials—are our most diverse generation ever. More than four in 10 are nonwhite, many the children of the great

wave of Hispanic and Asians immigrants who began arriving half a century ago. Compared with their elders, millennials are political liberals, they’re digital wizards, they’re not particularly religious, they’re slow to marry and have kids, and they’re broke. They’re the biggest generation since the boomers, who came of age back in the 1960s and ’70s and are best remembered for the psychedelic social protests of that era. In truth, they were never as liberal as their reputation; more boomers voted for Nixon in the 1972 presidential election than for his antiwar challenger, George McGovern. Nowadays, boomers’ big obsession isn’t sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll—it’s having enough money for their golden years. In fact, economic insecurity is a thread that binds these two mas-

young lives. The vast majority say they get along just fine with their parents—many of whom are boomers. The two generations even groove on the same music (well, some of the same music). A 2009 Pew Research Center survey found that the Beatles were the favorite band of both boomers and (along with Michael Jackson) millennials, even though the band had broken up a decade before the first millennial was born! All those intergenerational good vibrations might help with the hard political bargaining ahead. Social Security and Medicare are the purest expressions in public policy of the idea that as Americans, we are all in this together. But the programs need to sive generations. Many boomers be brought into sync with the haven’t saved enough for retire- new demographics of the 21st ment; meanwhile, millennials century, and that means some have lower incomes, less wealth, combination of benefit cuts and higher unemployment, and tax increases. Every generation greater debt than the boomers will have to share in the pain. The had at the same stage of life. longer political leaders shrink They’re at risk of being the first from this challenge, though, the generation in modern American more the burden of any solution history to have a lower standard of will fall on the young, who are alliving than their parents enjoyed. ready fated to get the worst deal But a generational of any generation from war needs combatants, Social Security and the and these two aren’t Medicare. In tomorspoiling for a fight. On row’s America, yestergeneration the contrary, they play Born: 1946 to 1964 day’s math won’t work. nicely and are even livSize: 76 million Paul Taylor, executive vice Age now: 49 to 67 ing interdependently. president of the Pew ReMore than four in 10 the search Center, is the author millennials are either of The Next America: still living with mom generation Boomers, Millennials and dad or have booand the Looming GenBorn: 1981 to ? meranged back home at Size: 80 million (est.) erational Showdown Age now: 18 to 32 (PublicAffairs). some point in their

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