Word: basic
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...administrators can’t trust us to safely burn wood in our fireplaces, they might as well take away other basic privileges and bar up all our windows or give us a 1 a.m. curfew. And what of Harvard-owned faculty housing—are the beautiful professors’ houses near the quad going to have fire bans as well? After all, our professors can be just as absent minded as we can be. Perhaps even more...
...facilities that would not be possible on the north side of the Charles. And despite worries that separating science fields from one another physically might prevent their intermingling intellectually, the University has already “split the sciences” without any negative consequences. A great deal of basic biomedical work is done at the Medical School in Longwood, quite a commute from the University’s Cambridge core, yet save a few students unhappy with the bus ride to the Medical School library, few complain about a lack of academic coordination. Allston is a stone?...
...formula is basic, the logic elementary...
...national economy is shrinking by at least 15 percent a year, as it has done for six years straight. Schools lack teachers and textbooks. Hospitals hardly function, deprived of basic medicines, supplies, nurses and physicians. Most gas stations lay idle. There is no paper on which to print bank notes, and people stand in long lines trying to obtain cash from banks. Unemployment is over 80 percent, and many hundreds of thousands of farm workers are without any work whatsoever...
...there's one basic difference between mainstream Hollywood movies that carpet the globe and the Asian and European films that are the Toronto fest's main fare, it's this: Hollywood movies are about (and for) guys; art films are about women. So the true stars of this year's festival were luminous presences like Gong Li, who never seemed more relaxed and human than in Sun Zhou's triangle romance Zhou Yu's Train-we note, with pleasure, her steamy sex scene with Hong Kong's Tony Leung Ka-fai-and Korea's Moon So Ri, the lead...