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...Boston Public Health Commission recently gave preliminary approval to a measure that would impose new restrictions on tobacco consumption and sales. One component of the measure is a proposed ban on the city’s cigar bars, of which four remain. These bars were given an exemption from the citywide ban on smoking imposed in 2004, and are popular hangouts for cigar aficionados. While the previous ban was an understandable measure in protection of public health, mandating the closure of cigar bars would be alarmingly intrusive given its limited advantages. The direct public health benefits of the ban would...
...Wood, Henry James’s description of a cigar’s “red tip” seen through a window is not the point of departure for endless interpretation, but rather a way of connecting his fictional world to reality.Viewed in context, this cigar has no explicit connection to the thread of James’s “The Aspern Papers;” its inclusion, to the stingy reader, may seem superfluous and irrelevant. But a writer who wishes to create realism and truth does not stick only to necessary details. Life, Wood argues...
When Bear Stearns collapsed in March, The New York Times described the storied Wall Street investment bank as “a throwback to a bygone era,” a place with a “cigar-chomping, suspender-wearing culture where taking risks was rewarded.” Some Harvard researchers may have found the link between the culture and the bust. Men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to opt for high-risk investments, according to a study by a Harvard anthropologist and a visiting economist. The researchers gave 98 male Harvard undergraduates $250 and asked...
...responsible for Britain's domestic security, might be interested. After all, the fictional spy has kept abreast of technology, is keenly aware that failed states harbor Britain's enemies, and has even given up smoking ("I can blow someone's head off, but I can't light a good cigar," growled current Bond actor Daniel Craig). Moreover, though still a ladykiller - sometimes quite literally - the priapic secret agent has morphed from infamous misogynist to indiscriminate misanthrope. He's discovered sexual equality, and so, it appears...
...conducting the London Symphony and London Philharmonic orchestras (Arabesque, three CDs, sold separately). Schnabel, who died in 1951, was an unlikely cult hero. Physically, he was unprepossessing: a short, stocky man with a walrus mustache and stubby fingers that, when they were not at the keyboard, habitually clutched a cigar. Technically, his sturdy playing was far from the blazing virtuosic ideal. Yet for concert audiences between the wars, Schnabel was among the foremost of pianists, his name synonymous with Beethoven's. His recitals of the piano sonatas were like religious services, and his editions of the music were admired...