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...begins with a relatively painless walk to one of Harvard's less-known cement monoliths, the Broadway Parking Garage. Painless, except for the constant fear of cars shooting up from the tunnel next to Canaday at rates up to sixty miles-per hour. Why fear these subterranean speeders? Simply put, you have no choice but to jaywalk if you decide to cross anywhere except Quincy Street. If you're as lucky as I am, you get to break the law in front of a completely ambivalent police cruiser. Ambivalent as to whether you're breaking the law, seemingly ambivalent...
More ill-constructed roads greet the driver back in the Square. In order to regain the safe cement of the Broadway Garage, one must turn back up northwards on Massachusetts Avenue and re-enter the tunnel of unbearable noise magnification. The problem is that two other lanes of traffic are also entering the connector from your right, so you must accelerate fast and cross two lanes or end up on your way back to Star...
...cultivate issues and policies that generate the limited but very staunch supporters who can deliver their number one vote for reelection. These staunch supporters come to expect absolute partisan loyalty from candidates, and this leaves no room for compromise on many policy issues. Minority policy positions are ignored to cement the constituencies needed for reelection, oftentimes at the considerable expense of fairness and equity. Extreme positions are encouraged under the proportional representation system. A moderate candidate, seeking to appeal to a broad plurality of constituents interested in compromise, is likely to receive too many middle of the pack number five...
...other options--my taking his name, both of us keeping our names or his taking my name--left something to be desired," she says. "This sort of avoids the non-feminist implications of women taking their husbands' last name, and it's a way to cement our link...
...terror of losing insurance through a job change or the whim of some green-visored claims adjuster. Another worthy "patient" is American business, or at least businesses that offer health benefits to their employees. These benefits, which consume one-fourth of corporate net income, have become like cement shoes on the feet of American enterprise, threatening to hobble the entire economy...