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...about Cambridge’s liquor license policy yesterday, the city council encouraged the city’s license commission to make it easier for restaurants to serve alcohol. Councillors raised concerns that the current policy dissuades innovative young restaurateurs from opening in Cambridge and discourages the hip young crowd from spending time—and money—in the city. Liquor licenses for Cambridge restaurants are currently allocated according to a cap system established in 1986. This system delineates 15 “cap areas,” each of which is assigned a fixed number of licenses...
...their supporters out in force at the Science Center, sporting bright t-shirts and enormous posters. Campaigners faced off directly and tried to out-shout one another. Supporters of Ali A. Zaidi ’08 began postering early yesterday morning, following a midnight kickoff event that drew a crowd of over 50 to the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Zaidi spent a slice of the $400 the Undergraduate Council (UC) allots per presidential ticket to buy two 10-pound pies from Unique Pizza and Subs to feed his flock. “A rocking chair moves but it doesn?...
...Americans today react to these different meanings and contexts? Far more interesting and unexpected than Richards’ rant are the reactions both of the crowd in the comedy club and of the hordes of sanctimonious newspaper columnists who have written about the outburst...
...beginning of Richards’ tirade. However, there is an eerie quiet when he says the n-word for the first time—a clear sign that Richards has crossed a line—followed by gasps. In his rage, Richards misinterprets these cues from the crowd and repeats the word several times. One of the hecklers yells, “That was uncalled for.” Gradually, other people raise their voices in outrage...
...highly improbable that any other words could have elicited this kind of reaction from the crowd. (The possibilities include Holocaust jokes, details of sexual depredations, or the torture of children.) Clearly, the n-word still has real bite...