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...locals are proud when one of their own goes on to play the sport in college or, like 1998 Reading High grad Chris Dyment, is drafted by the pros. And they have learned to live with strictures on violent behavior. Leagues in Reading, as in many other towns, have explicit rules forbidding parents from assaulting coaches. Some leagues even have security details on hand. Andrew Lauria, a police officer in nearby Revere with a seven-year-old son in hockey, is appalled that his service is now necessary. "I'll take the work if it's there," Lauria says...
...Several things hold all the pieces together. They all take place in Ice Haven, a burgh whose only distinguishing characteristic is a pustule-shaped rock outcrop known among the locals as "our friend." A central mystery also begins to take shape through many of the vignettes. With explicit overtones of the Leopold and Loeb murder case, the disappearance of a dopey-looking kid becomes the running theme of the book. Then, as if he didn't set enough of a challenge for himself, Clowes will often carry some event or object over from one vignette to the next...
While the committee stopped short of calling for an explicit ban on outsourcing, the recommendations require contractors to pay wages and benefits that are at least equal to those paid to unionized Harvard employees...
Instead of an explicit ban on outsourcing, he said ensuring parity would take away the University’s incentive to contract out work as a cost-cutting mechanism while maintaining the positive aspects of outsourcing—“innovation, productivity and competition,” Katz said...
...FDE’s also have going for them perhaps the most unifying force in existence: a broken rule. Anyone underage who has bought from an FDE has taken a risk, and there is an implicit, and sometimes explicit, fraternity between all the patrons in such an establishment. Just for having gained entrance, or more precisely for having the courage to enter, everyone feels at home, linked to each other by, if nothing else, the subtly strong twinge of shared excitement at being partners in a victimless crime...