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...people are carrying flashlights. We start to load out the equipment in the surreal black. I carry one turntable and it’s the heaviest object I’ve ever carried. I move it into the car and take a nap on CBGB’s upstairs couch...
Cairnie, as it turns out, ran a poetry shop that was almost more an elitist club than a bookstore. He had a poorly concealed disdain for the riffraff who wandered in unwittingly just to buy a book. Conversation in the backroom on the couch was a privilege reserved for Harvard boys, wealthy patrons and the well-known poets in residence across the street. If you weren’t attractive, eloquent or at least well-educated, you weren’t welcome back...
...this is an election year, after all, and the President would much rather not make himself - and his party - a target for those pesky charges of "politicizing" the homeland security debate. So there is going to be at least an attempt on the part of the White House to couch this disagreement in terms of safety and proficiency rather than dragging it through the political...
What really makes Americans fat? Your story said it all in this sentence: "We are fat because we consume too many calories and expend too few." All other explanations--genes, hormones, carbs and fats--strike me as pale excuses. Want to lose weight? Get off the couch, get off the fad diet, get smart about what you eat, and get moving. TIM HEFFERNAN Somerville, Mass...
...couch with pillows decorates the hallway of the IRC office. Cluttered with papers and other junk, the hallway leads into four other rooms—a tiny closet for back issues, the room used by the International Review, a desk used by the Harvard Program for International Education (HPIE) and the main IRC office, which has enough space for three chairs and a desk...