Word: basic
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...federally imposed drinking age of 21 is misguided. If 18-year-olds are mature enough to act as full participatory members of our democracy, eligible both to select our leaders and to defend our borders in arms, then they are sufficiently responsible to imbibe alcoholic beverages. Further, a basic premise of American liberty is that freedom allows for the flourishing of virtue. Eighteen-year-olds should be allowed to develop temperate drinking habits under the sanction of the law. The current federal statute in this country--which restricts highway funding if states do not comply--does nothing to change...
...deeply disturbed to read the comments of students concerning the decision of Harvard Dining Services to lift its union-sponsored boycott on table grapes in the misleadingly-titled Oct. 31 article "Students Object to Serving Grapes." Their basic attitude was along the lines of "I don't know much about this issue, but it certainly can't be as important as my desire to eat grapes." This utter disinterest in the welfare and quality of life of others speaks terribly of the student body...
Prominent members of the liberal intelligentsia are launching new attacks on the SAT, questioning its basic assumption that intelligence can be measured digitally. Nicholas Lemann, who is finishing a book delineating the rise of the American "meritocracy," argues that the SAT-focused admissions system magnifies inequalities in public schools by keeping low scorers from prominent careers; he also says it fails to evaluate a student's character. "Numerical measurement isn't the answer to everything in life," Lemann says. Law professor Lani Guinier co-authored a California Law Review article last year arguing that because standardized tests don't anticipate...
...food reveals anything valuable about their culture--and surely it does--then the dog-eared, gravy-stained pages of the old Joys are an invaluable resource for future historians. With 14 million copies in print, it is not cookbookery's commercial champion; that title belongs to the Betty Crocker basic cookbook, which has moved roughly 60 million copies. But Joy earned pride of place as the one indispensable kitchen reference source, and a fail-safe graduation or wedding present besides. It told beginning or uncertain cooks how to, among everything else, set a table, fillet a fish and turn...
...picks up the tempo only with some horribly repetitive electronica and an absolutely pointless tale in "I'll Be Your Jonny On The Spot," they do break up the monotony of the ocean waves at the album's beginning, adding an uncluttered dimension to the album by simply being basic...