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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last fall, self-described "humorists" from the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-sadomasochistic social club that periodically publishes perennially pitiful parodies--massacred Cambridge's brave, defenseless Freedom Tree. With an axe. This violent affront to American liberty and the local environment sickened and saddened...
...Night" to drink grain alcohol and force new recruits to "assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of their "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was inteded to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped in the bud by the pathetic pranksters on Mount Auburn...
Vellucci has convinced the city to place a steel sheet around the base of the Freedom Tree II to stave off the vicious vandals. But if Cambridge really wants to protect this blossom of beauty from its pernicious persecutors, it needs to go further...
Most important, the steel jail would protect Freedom Tree II from its unrepentant oppressors. Justice would be served. And Cambridge would be a slightly safer place to live--at least for the plants among...
...mistake. He's teasing. He does that a lot, making it easy for reporters to laugh. Call him a fatted calf, call him a freak show, and he chuckles. "I like being me," he says now. "I have gotten rid of all problems like leaves hanging off a tree. If an old man like me can come back from the dead, then that is a victory for mankind...