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Reliever Victor Cruz provided a glimmer of delight with several late-inning fireman exploits. At the end of the season, he was promptingly traded, along with his sparkling earned run average, to Cleveland...
...result: "We wouldn't even have the money to pay our fixed costs--the interest on our debt, our MBTA and MDC assessments, the pensions." If all went as the backers of the referendum envision it, there would not be the money in Cambridge "to employ a single fireman or cop," Sullivan says...
...were eager to return to work and the union began to soften its demands. Meanwhile, Chicago was making do. The number of blazes was running slightly below average, and only three people had died from fires in the 17 days, no more than the normal rate. Said one striking fireman of the city's fortunate residents: "Mayor Daley must be looking over them...
...story circulates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that last year, when a bomb exploded in the center of the courtyard of McCormick House, shattering windows and setting off a fire alarm early one Sunday morning, hordes of startled men and women tumbled out of the building. One fireman is reported to have muttered to another, "I thought this was a women's dorm...
...fireman was right, but he was probably the only one surprised. Students at MIT and Harvard and most of the other colleges in the country know that vast numbers of their peers do not sleep alone on weekends. A lot of them also participate in other activities that are prohibited by antiquated rules--drinking, smoking and gambling are a few. But most colleges today are happy to divorce themselves from responsibility for their students' social lives. The most restrictive policy on sex lives may well be getting a roommate's signature on a slip permitting overnight visitors. The stringent codes...