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More than 300 people crammed into the Bayside Club in South Boston for about three hours of political wisecracks. But in a year when the state's budget deficit is growing and the economy sputtering, the atmosphere seemed muted, the jokes restrained and good cheer in short supply...
...Harvard Square had reason to celebrate Friday, when the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination ruled that the Fly Club could not be sued for gender discrimination, because of its status as a private club. Members of the Porcellian Club, however, were apparently in no mood to share their good cheer. When a Crimson reporter called for comment, the Porcellian member who answered the phone uttered "no comment" before any questions could be asked. He then promptly hung up the phone...
Disgust is rampant among baseball fans. "I'll still go to the games, but I won't cheer and I won't yell," one fan wrote in a letter to The Sporting News. "I'll just sit and watch. I won't say a word...
Before we cheer too hard for the transformation of Soviet Russia, we should think even harder about all the other "Russias" in our minds and in our own country. We should think about those who don't physically resemble George Bush and Derek Bok, and about our consequent relegation of "them" to "minority" status, to existence as the Other...
...Eleven. Moore might even pass for what he is: the novice director of a documentary film about blue- collar unemployment. So why did 2,000 folks stand in line for hours last week in Flint, Mich., to ask him questions, throw verbal brickbats or cheer him on? Why has his movie Roger & Me stoked debate that has spilled from the entertainment pages into the news columns? And why is General Motors -- still the world's largest industrial corporation -- so darned annoyed by a gadfly like Moore...