Word: basic
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...ultimately, administrators say, the answer is basic: if students don't want to be tired, they just need...
...strange world. Conservative critics (Robert Bork, for example) have said that it originated in the Big Bang of the '60s. But in a new book called "HOW WE GOT HERE - The 70s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)" (Basic Books, 418 pages, $25), David Frum offers a more interesting and more nuanced thesis...
...simple recipe: old order Amish bread. But amidst the mixing of the beginning ingredients, he gets overly-excited and runs to the Wall of Spices. And then to the cabinet of oil. "Taste, taste!" he sings as the old order Amish start getting fatty and spicy. He scoops the basic ingredients from industrial-sized garbage bins of flour and sugar. A bowl of yeast and water sits still underneath him. "Bubble, bubble..." he croons. "If it doesn't bubble, that means I killed it," he explains. When a light foam develops, he mixes and kneads, and waits...
...Gaining these valuable leadership skills requires a lot of time getting to know the T bus driver on the early shift, as Marisa L. Porges '00 explains. "For the basic commitment, we always have Naval Science class two times a week, 7:30 to 9 in the mornings. Usually, I got up at 6, caught a ride or the bus to MIT by 7, returned to campus after 9 and continued with a normal day like everybody else." After dealing with that hectic schedule for three years, Porges was glad to get some extra shuteye this year. She exudes...
...Franklin: That's true for me too. I can't emphasize the difference in religion-it's just so fundamentally different because it's the basic tenets of life in the South. Here, it may be or it may not. And people who you would assume to be religious are atheist...