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...this law as but another attempt to legislate away the current chronic housing shortage in Cambridge by unrealistic bureaucratic rules, instead of attacking the root problem, which is simply that Cambridge has too few apartments and must have more built fast. Unfortunately, though it is little-understood or read by otherwise well-informed Cambridge citizens, the whole Cambridge zoning law is what severely limits substantial new construction. For example, how many readers are aware of the fact that our city has a 35-foot height limit in its biggest zoning district? Shouldn't we question whether this is an appropriate...
...standard phrase concerning social disorders is "It's only a small group that's involved." But that is a misleading assertion. Beyond the fractious few, beyond even the considerable group of sympathizers, is the larger number of people who have no fixed views but are running a chronic low fever of antagonism toward their institutions, their fellow men and life in general. They provide the climate in which disorder spreads. In that climate, unfortunately, our honored tradition of dissent has undergone an unprecedented debasement...
Junior Mike Luggen, a high school star who played on the freshman team two years ago, has been plagued by a chronic shoulder problem and has had to quit the race for a mound spot...
...cost is not the whole be problem. More disturbing than higher hospital bills is the fact that many people don't even have a chance to pay those higher bills. While American medicine has surged ahead in some areas, it has still lagged in one of its chronic trouble spots. The distribution system that is supposed to send medical benefits out to the public is hopelessly inadequate to its task...
Barnaby, wary of the fact that his three toughest matches--Navy, Penn, and Princeton--were all away, had insisted on using a different type ball from the one Harvard had to use against Navy the day beforehand, when Peter Abrams' chronic back ailments sidelined him the day before the big match. These factors, coupled with the fact that Penn had one of its most powerful squads in years, resulted in Harvard's first loss to the Quakers...