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...Reno, Nevada, the Truckee River took a shortcut through town, forcing government offices, the celebrated Mustang Ranch brothel and--for the first time in memory--several casinos to shut down...
...grocery store after he left the 49ers to take the Green Bay job in 1992. As his cart approached that of a little old lady, she looked at him and said, "Hey, California, go out and kick some butt." Make no mistake: the city on the Fox River and Lake Michigan is not exactly paradise. Just like Bedford Falls, it has its dark side. African-American players, isolated and marked as Packers, once likened the town to a prison. After a series of Cowboy-like incidents in the mid-'80s, a Wisconsin legislator proposed that a penitentiary be built...
...befallen him. In June 1801, he admitted to a friend, “For the last three years my hearing has become weaker and weaker. The trouble is supposed to have been caused by the condition of my abdomen.” Doctors suggested that swimming in the Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that of Beethoven, racked with cramps, bathing in fortified water and trying to drown the noise...
...Davenport writes in an e-mail. He adds that students should show their support if they do not want Harvard Square to lose another of its landmarks and slip further towards commercialization. Although it might be hard for students to see outside the metaphorical tunnel between the River and the Science Center, the vibrancy of Square is certainly one of the benefits to attending Harvard. The disappearance of institutions like the Brattle might radically change the Cambridge students know and love.This scrutiny of the Square’s ongoing cultural transformation is particularly important to Brian P. Murphy...
...wall of the gallery. It creates a crescendo across the wall of color and technical advancements in print-making but it is too wide to really incite appreciation as a grouping of photographs. Bookended by William Henry Jackson’s 1890 photograph, “Canon of Grand River, Utah” and Alex Webb’s contemporary color photograph “Guard at Sugar Plantation, Outside Kampala Uganda,” the collection spotlights more historical subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective...