Word: archaicisms
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...naming pop musician Eminem as the worst in music last year, you noted, "Attacking women and gays isn't rebellious, it's archaic." That is the smartest thing anyone has ever written about Eminem. Too bad other magazines gave kudos to the year's most visible bigot. Thank you, thank you, for not including Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP on your list of the 10 best albums. THOM RENTON BRITTANY Seattle...
Winter exams have traditionally been scheduled after break so that the University may begin the term after Labor Day. But such mindless adherence to antiquated tradition reflects poorly on an institution dedicated to the cultivation of reason. The archaic idea that finals should occur after winter break has vexed undergraduates for too long, and now, in the first year of the new millennium, the University should take the bold step of revamping our schedule to join the rest of the modern world...
...Situation Report: Once the most dangerous among the "rogue" nations in Washington?s gallery, the archaic Stalinist state is desperate to come in from the cold - if only to stave off mass starvation and economic collapse. And in its efforts to rejoin the real world, the North Koreans have the all-important support of South Korea, which is, after all, the state that those 40,000 U.S. troops are on the Korean peninsula to protect. But then there's the little matter of Pyongyang's missile program, which has long been the centerpiece of arguments for the National Missile Defense...
...panelists agreed that many of the problems in America's current election system stem from preservation of archaic tabulation methods...
...voting holiday, extending voting hours and instituting simultaneous poll openings and closings between all time zones. But while these policies might have changed the outcome of the current election by bringing more and different people to the polls, none of them would have solved the current problem introduced by archaic and inconsistent voting procedures. Neither would any of them increase the reliability and rapidity of recounts...