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Lots of goodies this week, folks; a whole slew of shows debut. They range from murder mysteries to multi-media, proving once again what a diverse Center for the Arts Cambridge is, how stimulating a place it is to go to school in, and how appreciative we should be--you get the drift. Seriously, though, there is a nice assortment of drama and ballet this week; if none of the new shows appeal, you can always make do with last week's leftovers...
...would deny a blind person with a Seeing-Eye dog equal access to public facilities? A whole slew of restaurants, that's who, even though every state has modified health regulations to guarantee admittance for canine guides. After suffering through exclusion incidents, thousands of blind people now carry a summary of state laws to convince hostile restaurant and club owners of their rights...
Like all textbook populists, Vellucci portrays himself as fighting a slew of institutions. He says, "There's an organized effort by the condominium converters to defeat me." Harvard has been his most popular nemesis. "You go to Harvard on scholarship? You know it's all blood money from the oil companies." He never resists the opportunity to tease Harvard, but with the exception of his somewhat demagogic stop-recombinant-DNA research campaign, he has not frustrated the University on any specific issues such as expansion or increased in-lieu of tax payments...
...surface, such a venture seems nothing short of fiscal madness. For every dream horse like Seattle Slew (auction price: $17,500; payoff on the Triple Crown races alone: $462,380), there are thousands of also-rans and tens of thousands of never-rans. As a rule, only 5% of the more than 30,000 thoroughbreds foaled each year will ever earn their keep on a race track. Fully 65%, in fact, are high-priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high...
Triple Crown Winner Seattle Slew was the one who should have been on your cover, not Ray. We have heard enough about...