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...don’t want to sound as though I have no sympathy for bartenders who suck down the equivalent of a pack of smokes every night on the job, and I fully support serious restrictions on smoking. Ban it in all bars and clubs over a certain size. Enact strict air quality regulations, forcing bars to use fans and ventilation systems to cut down on smokiness. Hell, ban smoking before 9 p.m. in all bars; bar owners would certainly accept it and all other regulations over a total prohibition...
...Cambridge voters approve the measure in the polls, the city will file a so-called “home-rule petition” with the state legislature. If the legislature votes affirmatively, the city would be able to re-enact rent control laws within its borders even though the practice was banned in Massachusetts...
...persist in believing that universities are a local burden, we ought to do what Connecticut did 25 years ago: enact a measure that offers reimbursement to cities for the theoretically lost revenue. New Haven alone gets $32 million from the state to alleviate the supposed burden of Yale and its other major non-profits. Connecticut lawmakers wisely did not want their colleges and universities continually distracted by disputes with local officials...
Moreover, the song Cash had to enact, by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, is an intense cry of pain dished out and taken--a dirge for a life misspent in rancor. "The facet of John that it explores is serious, somber and angry," Romanek notes. "But between takes, the John Cash I saw was someone more active and sprightly than he looks in the video." When Romanek asked the singer's wife June Carter Cash if she would appear briefly in the video, the Man in Black puckishly suggested, "Yeah, honey, why don't you dance naked...
...default. In pursuit of different agendas, competing interests tend to cancel one another out over time, leaving the nation with no coherent direction on energy. Lawmakers launch programs to develop alternative-energy supplies but later quietly cut or eliminate the funding so there are no realistic alternative sources. They enact legislation offering incentives to stimulate crude-oil production in the U.S., when the politicians know--or should know--that the programs will not do so in any significant way. They encourage utilities, businesses and industries to shift to natural gas, then fail to ensure sufficient supplies of the fuel...