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LIBERATED HOUSEWIVES adored her. Hungry husbands, presumably, couldn't stand her. Peg Bracken, a former advertising copywriter, parlayed her disdain for wifely chores into the snarky best-selling 1960 recipe manual The I Hate to Cook Book, a guide for quick, easy meals. It became a staple of baby boomers' kitchens, and she followed up with popular sequels about housekeeping and etiquette. Her beef stew would "cook happily all by itself," she once wrote, on "days when you're en negligee, en bed with a murder story and a box of bonbons...
...this conclusion. This week, a Crimson investigation revealed that students are not alone; many systemic problems are festering within the Expository Writing program, from dissatisfaction amongst preceptors to a lack of interest on the part of faculty and administrators to a dearth of funding.These problems are too large for quick fixes and stopgap measures. Instead of pursuing reforms such as changing the program’s leadership, increasing funding, forcing indifferent professors to pay attention to the program, and reducing class sizes, the University should reevaluate Expository Writing altogether. Specifically, we hope that Expository Writing will be radically downsized...
...foreign currency is the crack. Not to say there’s anything wrong with a little cook-up, but I don’t have nearly enough fingers to count all the visual and verbal references to the drug made throughout. What with all the subliminal-message-sending quick-cuts used by director Hype Williams, it’s hard not to come away from the video feeling a little strung out. “Blue Magic,” produced by and featuring (for about thirty seconds) the Neptunes’ Pharrell Williams...
...phone rang at 4:15 a.m. It was the reverse 911 phone call [the pre-recorded call warning homeowners that they are in a mandatory evacuation zone]. I touched the window. It was very warm. I heard sirens. I said, "We've got to get out of here, quick...
...drove away I saw all these houses ablaze. I was just shocked. All this happened within 15 minutes of me waking up. Half the cul-de-sac was now on fire. That's how quick it happened. When I went to bed the night before, at 12:30 a.m., the fire was 35 miles away. Nobody could have predicted that the winds would change. If I hadn't gotten that 911 call, I might have perished. I'd never have gotten out of the neighborhood...