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...Locke-Ober remains a seductive trap for well-intentioned parents visiting from out of town, eager to entertain their malnourished college students. When uninitiated Mom and Dad from Weehauken decide to splurge on An Evening at Locke-Ober, cold, cruel reality intrudes on myth, and expectations are bound to be disappointed...
Crimson fullback Robert Santiago, on his way to an 84-yard performance (69 in the second half), pranced into the endzone on a trap and the Crimson led, 18-17, although Harvard again botched its two-point conversion attempt. dominated city council debate and the CCA platform for several years. The CCA-supported policy which regulates rent in low- and moderate-income city housing, was finally passed into law in 1969, but the liberal party lost substantial support in the process...
Hamilton also, unfortunately, tries to create the impression that this adventure is only a beginning. Forgetting the chut/pah of the producers to think that people would actually want a sequel, Hamilton falls into the dangerous trap of creating a made-for-television movie introducing a new series...
...PROBLEM, therefore, with MacKinnon's bill lies in a sense precisely in its explicitness, "the quick-fix appeal" of coding into law a short-term memory of more deeply rooted, that is, historical inequalities. "Should we burn it?," Suleiman warns, is a trap. Scrubbing away at unpleasant surfaces is a domestic chore. On one hand, one wants to sling mud for mud; on the other, one is then reduced to a similar level of indecency, instead of providing new examples of civil education...
...Hoover, a President well versed in international commerce, fall into such a trap? In part, he was bound by the 1928 Republican platform, which promised tariffs to help the ailing farm economy. A crisis atmosphere took hold a year later with the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression. For decades the Republicans had been sympathetic to protectionism; now they saw trade barriers as a means of placating demands that the Government do something concrete to fight unemployment...