Word: cards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's something worth checking out, especiallyright after The Game and right before a holiday.Every Tuesday at the Brass Bull is theTuesday Night Guest Bartender, featuring a newface every Tuesday! That means you! Drop in yourbusiness card (or crumpled up piece of notebookpaper), win the contest, pour drinks, pop beersand talk trash with your friends. 199 StateStreet, Boston, 723-2855. FREE...
...upon departure from the train. Even worse, though, is the blinding array of CVS marquis, Gap displays and trendy nouveau cuisine eateries that vex disillusioned Harvard students yearning for the long-lost quaintness of charismatic local city neighborhoods. Today, convention is readily acquired by the swipe of a credit card, and one need not venture outside the 1-mile radius of Store 24 to take a virtual walk through similarly commercialized Beantown. The mom & pop establishments with faded awnings, friendly hellos and century-old traditions are rapidly disappearing from the much frequented causeways of the big city...
...ball-point pen home without scruple. When classmates are home, it's usually not that bad. Most people treat the call as expected and appropriate. They've grown accustomed to the call: it's not like taking them away from the dinner table to sell them a new credit card...
...First, I want to make a gesture of thanks to an institution which continues to be awfully good to me. Most people do not realize the advantages of living near one's college. Just to mention one priceless perk, the university allows me to buy a Harvard College Library card for $10 a year (the over-age-65 rate). I get to choose among millions of books for my own research and leisure interests. I could also discuss other agreeable benefits such as a long-standing association with an undergraduate House and use of the athletic facilities...
Hours later, the university capitulated to the students' pressure and effectively shut down the conference by banning anyone without a Columbia identification card from the campus. Administrators cited security concerns; student organizers hailed the decision and declared victory. "It was great," said Roxanne Smithers, president of Columbia's Black Students Organization. "They were entirely dislocated. The black people have been dislocated for years, and they were dislocated for a few hours. It doesn't equalize it, but it's a start...