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Before serving the main courses, Beuscher offered culinary advice and philosophizing. The immense skate came with a tutorial on how to cut sideways to avoid severing ligaments. Topped with tomato and parsley garnish, the gently flavored fish flaked easily but was definitely upstaged by the meat. The skirt steak ($20), served with potatoes, carrots and a chunk of marrow-filled bone, came with another lesson. While diners used to suck marrow out of the bone, hence the term “sucking the marrow out of life,” these days the bone comes sliced in half...
This fact leads candidates to stay away from issues that are important to young adults and avoid most college campuses all together. Students tend to respond by not voting at all and the cycle of voter apathy keeps on spinning. However, it doesn’t have to be this way. Young adults can make a difference in America’s political system but they have to be willing to invite themselves to the party...
...main thing now is to avoid blame-casting if possible and to get the election underway,” he wrote in an e-mail...
When No. 25 Harvard visits No. 14 Lehigh’s Goodman Stadium on Saturday, the Mountain Hawks will also be trying to avoid losing consecutive games to Ivy League foes for the first time since 1992, when they fell to Cornell and Princeton in successive weeks...
Iraq's latest agreement to unfettered arms inspections may be just what Secretary of State Colin Powell had been trying to avoid. Not that Powell is in any rush to go to war, but the deal hammered out Tuesday in Vienna after two days of talks between Iraqi officials and UN arms inspectors is based on existing UN resolutions, rather than the tough new ultimatum for which Washington has been pushing at the Security Council. And that could make the difference, for London and Washington, between effective and ineffective inspections. Most irksome to the U.S. in the current deal...