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Lest you be mislead into thinking I'm going to whimper about the temperature, let me assure you that it's not the weather I'm talking about. Although the excess of snow may still be my most popular gripe and though my New England born neighbors tire of hearing me extol the virtues of the Golden State's perpetual spring, after two long winters I have almost grown accustomed to the idea that not all of my facial accoutrements will survive Harvard intact...
Cambridge political underdogs gripe that the "P.R." of proportional representation might as well stand for perpetual re-election...
...another place to work I would," says roofer Michael Braga, whose major gripe is reduced pay. "I think Harvard sucks...There's all this `Do you have any Grey Poupon?' bullshit. The buildings are nice, but who cares...
Some of the more intriguing objections: cigarette makers, targeted for a tax of around 75 cents a pack to help pay for the plan, have been howling "No fair." They insist that any "sin" taxes should fall on liquor as well as smokes. Some feminists, while enthusiastically pro-reform, gripe that Clinton's plan does not pay enough attention to women's special health problems. For example, they say, it would be too stingy in paying for mammograms...
Damon's tenacity paid off--she got into the class. Her initial rejection, however, underlines a gripe that many seniors have with some Core lotteries...