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...Still, proponents of a lower MLDA persist with this “forbidden fruit?? speculation and some fallacious comparisons. For instance, shouldn’t a country that sends 18-year-olds to war also let them drink? Perhaps other minimum ages deserve amendment, but the bottom line of this one remains safety and responsibility. It is probably smart to deny 18-year-olds the presidency...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: For Drinking, 21 the Right Number | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...invitations I received were of the teeth-sucking variety—tooth-sucking being the Vietnamese equivalent of a wolf whistle. One particularly juicy chat-up line—“Can I have some watermelon?” referring of course to my unfinished plate of fruit??had me sniggering in the suitor’s face. Men, boys, and even occasionally old women disturbed me in parks, in restaurants, on buses—everywhere, as if the appearance of a lone woman triggered an irresistible urge to make unwanted advances (or, in the case...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel, | Title: Progress By Pho Pas | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...Williams book, Williams’ musical forays being one of the more accessible reference points for “She’s” bold take on musical synergy (especially the song “Om Nia American” on Amethyst Rock Star). “Stiff Fruit?? ends things on a less chaotic note, sounding like an extraterrestrial campfire jam with Four Tet, with more than enough lyrical S’mores to go around...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A New White. | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...state, Indiana. In the 1990s he announced on the floor of the House of Representatives his certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into a large fruit in his back yard. (I say “large fruit?? because there is some dispute over whether it was a watermelon or a pumpkin.) But Burton was not driven off the fringes of his party; on the contrary, they made him chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Hollywood Hypocrisy vs. Neo-Liberal Neurosis | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

Soto said Summers chatted—over Cuban pastries and fruit??with the Floridians about topics ranging from getting into Harvard to the likely war in Iraq and its destabilizing effects on the Middle East...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Speaks With Florida High Schoolers | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

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