Word: weightier
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Take Sam Stoloff, a literary agent, who is the primary cook in his two-income, two-commute, three-child household, a job that grew weightier a few years ago when his family moved from Manhattan--where takeout was an easy option--to South Orange, N.J. Stoloff has been cooking his way through Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef. On his lunch break he scours New York City for ingredients like the smoked paprika needed for a chickpea dish he recently made. Stoloff's strategy is to stock a great pantry--with items like homemade salsas...
Armed with family papers and genealogies, Babcock has tilted happily over weightier questions against colonial historians ignorant of the latest discoveries in barnography. "We found a 16th century French barn in Rensselaer County, N.Y., last year," he says. "That's a century before the experts say the place was settled. All they know is what they read. I know what I find. Barns always tell the truth...
...judicial system has no choice but to proceed with extreme caution, weighing the desire to hold a tyrant to account against an imperative to preserve due process in so doing; and while the preferred result is, of course, to do both, the former must absolutely be held in the weightier regard. If Gen. Pinochet, murderer or otherwise, must be left to live the rest of his life in freedom so that the end of greater justice is accomplished, then...
...challenged men can pick up Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them (Dutton; 168 pages) by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. The Fab Fiver has a take on everything from basic questions like boxers or briefs to weightier dilemmas like the blurry line between metrosexual and gay (hint: manicures, metro; French manicures, gay). --By Kate Novack
...STEWART arrived at her federal trial on obstruction-of-justice and securities-fraud charges last week, court watchers tittered that her pricey purse made her look elitist. Stewart carried an Hermes Birkin bag, which starts at $6,000. But really, shouldn't Stewart's jury pool be concerned with weightier questions, like how the brown Birkin pairs with an orange jumpsuit...