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...closes at 12:30 a.m. Try catching a cab at Alewife after a 10:45 movie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Also on April 17, a cab driver responding to a pickup request on Cambridge St. reported he was assaulted by two people who got into his cab. The driver told police he asked his riders if they had called for the cab. They told him "no." He then asked them to leave. He claims that one of the people then punched him in the chest three times...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...special dispensation" from the Rebbe to visit a prostitute. In theory, this excused adultery will save the marriage by reducing sexual pressure. Not surprisingly, the Rebbe's solution causes as many problems as it solves, and after a series of funny and uncomfortable dialogues with two prostitutes and a cab driver, the story ends with a sorrowfully ironic twist rather similar to that in O'Henry's "The Gift of the Magi." Alternately poignant and humorous, this story is perhaps the best in the collection...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Singer, Aleichem... Englander? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...subject even when it's not, honesty is frequently not the best policy, and people with choices almost always make the wrong one. The play opens with two characters in a hospital waiting room. Alice, who works in a strip club, has been hit by a cab, and Dan, a newspaper obit writer, has come to her rescue. The action never seems to leave the trauma ward as the two pair up with each other and, eventually, with Larry, a straitlaced doctor, and Anna, a stylish photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sex in the Trauma Ward | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...companions return from the rest room in giggles. The swarm of MIT men struck again, and this time one of my friends had offered her number, except, "I gave him yours, Alicia." Sweet. I decide that this is my cue to leave. We exit. On the cab ride home, my fellow adventurers and I come to the consensus that the club owners must have favored the old baseball analogy for hooking up: To be on first implies the possibility of scoring. When my phone rings at 6:05 a.m., and caller ID busts the sketch MIT guy, I'm glad...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo and Pamela S. Wasserstein, S | Title: Who's on First? Friday Night in Boston's Sketchiest | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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