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Indeed, by night or day, the island's fun-and-games fulcrum is Lahaina (pronounced La-high-nah), a one-street, six-block town with the raffish aura of Virginia City cum Tijuana. Once the playground of Hawaiian royalty, and later in the 19th century a major port for whaling ships and China clippers, the clapboard community has been restored to a state of authentic tackiness. La haina boasts some 30 restaurants and about 260 stores whose offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS...
...officials say Harvard students play so much basketball and tennis at municipal playgrounds up and down Memorial Drive that there is no room left for Cambridge residents to use the facilities. "It's a severe problem at the Corporal Burns," a playground on Memorial Drive near Mather House, councilor Kevin P. Crane '73, said yesterday...
Graham said the problem has existed "for years," but officials were especially concerned now because the city plans to construct a new playground--the Riverside Press Project--this summer on Memorial Drive...
...afraid the Harvard students will take over Riverside--I know they will," Graham said, adding that the issue is even affecting planning for the new playground...
Several councilors said they feared Harvard students would take over the new playground. "They treat Corporal Burns (another municipal playground in the Memorial Drive area) like it's theirs, councilor Saundra Graham said...