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...lost a lot of effectiveness," said Kate Dempsey, coordinator of Cambridge United for Smoking Prevention (CUSP), a program of the Cambridge Substance Abuse Task Force involving city officials and community residents...
...amended ordinance approved Monday night is the result of several revisions of CUSP's original proposal, submitted in March. The key modifications to the original proposal came from the pro-business Cambridge Chamber of Commerce and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association...
...amended bill threw out the complicated system of exemptions for some bars and small restaurants in the CUSP proposal, instead exempting all bars, lounges and restaurants with fewer than 25 seats...
...council passed Galluccio's amendment, 5-4, and defeated two amendments proposed by Duehay to restore the force of the original proposal, by the same margin. The vote split along party lines, with Independent councillors siding with the restaurateurs and Cambridge Civic Association members supporting CUSP...
Much of Life After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...