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Here at Harvard, it is sometimes easier to go to a bar than go to the trouble of sneaking booze past your proctor and into your room. And right outside of your doorstep is a solid group of watering holes. So here is FM’s guide to the top places for getting shitty in the Square...
...night Doc's ex-girlfriend Shasta shows up on his doorstep asking for help. It appears that her new squeeze, the powerful real estate mogul Mickey Wolfmann, may be the target of a kidnapping scheme. When Mickey disappears - and Shasta too - the lovelorn Doc, with quantities of superior weed, plunges into a many-layered plot. It involves, among other things, the LAPD, organized crime, disorganized crime, a lecherous dentist and the Golden Fang, which is sometimes a mysterious schooner, sometimes a no-nonsense drug cartel. Pynchonesque multitudes crowd into the picture. Tight-lipped federales, stoner lawyers, ex-con neo-Nazis...
...react to a problem that is real, but not immediately threatening. Obama is trying to do this in two monster areas, health care and climate change. "He's killing me," says Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, referring to the hordes of special-interest groups that have camped on her doorstep and clogged her phone lines. Stabenow is smiling as she says it. She supports the broad thrust of Obama's initiatives. "But you can't believe all the groups that want to make their case. There are the doctors, the nurses, the cancer society," she continues, raising the specter...
...Malacca they are nesting in bright light." Lucky producers can harvest two to four pounds of nests a month, worth up to $500 per pound ($1,100 per kg). Middlemen are buying up all the nests they can source, usually as quietly as possible. "They come to your doorstep and pay you cash," says Kok. "This business is a very secretive thing, because they're not paying any tax to the government. Everyone is doing it on an illegal or secret basis, where you declare 10 kilos but you are selling 1,000 kilos...
Horror on the Doorstep In another country, reports of elected representatives milking their expenses might send folk on to the streets to burn a few cars. Britons are angry - you only need to drop the word politician into a conversation to discover just how furious they are - but their anger is of the slow-burning, passive-aggressive variety of a people who wear socks with sandals. All the mainstream parties encountered hostility on the doorstep as they campaigned for last week's elections, but Labour, as the party of government, was perceived to carry the heaviest responsibility. "When we talk...