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Cambridge Police have been staking-out a local convenience store, popular among undergraduates, to crack down on minors purchasing alcohol, according to students and the store's manager...
Last weekend was not the first time the police have targeted Louie's, which is located next to Mather House, for potential violations of the Commonwealth's laws governing alcohol sales to minors, said Chen. Chen added that the crack down at Louie's was just part of the Cambridge and Harvard police forces' regular monitoring of area liquor stores...
Duke's disenchanted voters not only want to sweep out the old professional governing class; they want someone to crack down on crime, drugs and welfare cheats. In a time of high unemployment, they want assurances that their job security will not be further eroded by affirmative action and set-aside programs. Duke bristles at the suggestion that he exploits racial fear. But until he offers credible evidence of change, other than his professed embrace of the Christian faith, that protest rings hollow...
...break the mold, Marden in the mid-'80s started doing calligraphic drawings, not with a brush but with twigs of ailanthus wood -- ailanthus being the common weed tree that grows in every sidewalk crack in Lower Manhattan but is known to the Chinese as the tree of heaven. Stuck in a long holder and dipped in ink, these flexible little sticks delivered a blobby, rough line, far from the look of classical brush drawing but with some of its improvised character...
Bugs aren't perfect, by a long shot. They're ugly, dirty and unsanitary. They really don't belong in a dorm room. But if an ugly, dirty, unsanitary person came through a crack in my bathroom wall, I don't think I'd deal him a death blow. I'd open the window and give him a chance...