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...Network's website, foodtv.com, features not only thousands of recipes from the likes of Bobby Flay, above, but plenty of quick video lessons too. Rachael Ray demonstrates a one-minute party punch, while Tyler Florence explains how to make a simple salad dressing in seconds. For beginners, there are basic lessons on subjects like chopping vegetables, cleaning shrimp and rolling dough. The site is free, but many of the videos are preceded by brief...
...Rough Treatment "One Life inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights and decency, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next-hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists? Gilbert Laraque Miami...
...Back to Basics Re "The New India, and the Old One" [March 13]: I concur with essayist Alex Perry that India's progress is staggering in its magnitude and its one-dimensional quality. In evolving into a nuclear power worthy of American attention, India has become somehow detached from the person in the street. In day-to-day India-with an entrenched, corrupt bureaucracy, only an intermittent supply of clean water and millions of people lacking basic health care and sanitation-the new international developments seem impossibly far removed. India requires first the basics of life and then transparency...
Presumably a potential employer would run a basic background search that would turn up Middlesex District Court records from the Quincy House student’s case. The student’s name is also online—and available for free—in the logs posted on the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) website. So even if the Feb. 24 arrest does “hugely compromise” the student’s future, we’re not sure whether that comes as a result of The Crimson’s decision. But we believe that...
...education they purport to provide. However, as far as higher education is concerned, the last thing that is necessary is some form of standardized testing. A standardized educational curriculum is mandated through high school. This is the timeframe in which states are required to provide students the basic skills they need to be “productive” members of society. If the states cannot teach children basic algebra and other essential skills in 12 or sometimes 13 years, why should the burden fall to universities? Standardized testing already exists in high schools thanks to illegitimate, improper federal bullying...