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...first Baltimore police, who are also members of the AFSCME, limited their protest to a time-consuming slowdown, carefully measuring how many inches cars were parked from the curb and filling out lengthy lost-property reports for pennies picked up off the pavement. One cop took particular delight in ticketing the chauffeur of Mayor William D. Schaefer for changing lanes without signaling...
...probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise," Biologist Lewis Thomas writes in The Lives of a Cell. Thomas' sense of contented dazzlement and his delight in scientific discovery are familiar to readers of his column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," which appears regularly in the austere New England Journal of Medicine. His book, a collection of some of the best of those pieces, shows those who do not read the Journal how much they have...
...insists that the Register "does not take a stand to the right of the church. It is to the right of some who differ from what the Pope says." Nevertheless, his principal columnists are bitter polemicists, some of whom delight in discovering evidence of ancient heresies among contemporary Catholic liberals...
...Threepenny Opera opens Wednesday night at the Loeb. This is the first in a series of offerings by the Harvard Summer School Repertory, a company that is traditionally proficient and thoroughly professional. The Bertolt Brecht play is a modern classic, and a delight to see if the performance is sufficiently raunchy. Kurt Weill's music and Brecht lyrics give the show its real flavor; "The Ballad of Mack the Knife" is the tastiest number. The Shark bites Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St. Wednesday tickets are $4.95, a Thursday seat costs...
...delight to read the refreshing article on Reggie Jackson [June 3]. I am glad some light was cast on the humane side of an individual who is too often looked on as an overpaid hot dog. Reggie Jackson is a fine athlete who gives a booster shot to a game that seems to be losing its momentum...