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...Town-Gown Relations
Duehay remembers his early years on the citycouncil--the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s--as atime of escalating town-gown tension...
...would say that the thing that most annoyspeople in Cambridge is the failure of theUniversities to pay taxes," Duehay says. "Theycould eliminate one source of town-gown strife inone fell swoop with paying full taxes...
Another town-gown debate has arisen over thecity's universities--especially MIT--attractingspinoff industries over the past two decades...
...Jack, the prototypical World War II vet who's got a metal plate in his head, and Elaine, who got so wrapped up in the slot machines that she forgot to visit her kids on Christmas. And of course there's Ida, an aging widow who wears her finest gown and all of her jewelry to come play cards. Twice a month, I took my place among this vulgar spectacle to try my luck at Seven Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. My first few visits were far from pretty; not just a slow bleed of cash, more like...