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...Recently, city offices have also begun to close earlier on Friday afternoons. But despite his public reprimand of Podgers, Reeves echoed the concerns of residents, saying that he did not understand the abruptness of the decision. “This was not intended to be a bad thing I guess, but the perception is that we’re taking away a meal from seniors,” Reeves said. “This is a problem with how this came about.” Reeves pressed City Manager Robert W. Healy to give the council more notice when making...
...players on this stocker-team juggernaut? Nintendo, whose soccer games sell well as "youngsters get excited" by the Cup; Holcim, a Swiss building-materials company, because the Cup "always involves major infrastructure" additions; Heineken, the Dutch brewer, and Scottish & New Castle, a British pub operator (try to guess why); Canon, the Japanese imaging company, because "worldwide media attention" means fans will want to record the event; Fuji Photo, a Japanese film company (see Canon); Coca-Cola, one of the main sponsors; Tesco, a British takeaway-food retailer; InterContinental Hotels; Puma, the German sports-shoe company, because of "higher-than-average...
...current season, which ended Wednesday, is The Drowsy Chaperone, in which a friendly hermit known only as Man in Chair (co-author Bob Martin) slips a 33-1/3 rpm record out of its sleeve and tells us we are about to hear A 1928 musical called guess what. In a trice, the gent's apartment is converted into a Broadway stage and the musical is performed, with Man in Chair's frequent interpolations on the biographies of the stars. It's all faux, you know, and as directed by Casey Nicolaw (who choreographed Spamalot) the evening has an airy...
...have to admit that I was one of thefirst people to break into grocery stores the day after the tsunami. I did it because help had not arrived and people were hungry. I guess it was natural that people started looting to look for food. But if looting gets out of hand, then it's time to call the army for help...
...campus political circles. Harvard students have no trouble accepting the idea that rural, God-fearing po’ folk have made some ridiculous error and voted for the party that makes their lives miserable. We look out over middle America and say, “Well, Buffy, I guess they’re just too dumb to vote Democrat. If only they realized that Republicans are using social issues to delude them, then they’d have healthcare and everything would be fine.” But at least rural voters get something for their vote. They...