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...Cops in Shops" program is arbitrary. Currently, 32 Cambridge liquor stores participate in the program. The Cambridge License Commission uses a lottery system to select sting targets on a given evening. Those unlucky individuals who are caught by the program face the harshest of consequences, but it is their poor luck alone that accounts for their special fate. Countless minors continue to purchase alcohol unobstructed. Granted, the example of others may serve as a deterrent, but there are far more just ways of enforcing the law. If the CPD wishes to crack down on the illegal purchase of alcohol, they...
...perhaps the harshest criticism comes from a former government department graduate student...
Half-student and half-teacher, TFs can sense fear and are often dangerous when threatened. Some have even been known to hurl their harshest self-defense--the "B-minus"--when attacked. However, those who study the species have recognized that while hostility may increase during midterm week, TFs are actually very gentle, docile creatures, easily placated by a visit to office hours or even the simplest intelligent comment in section. Take care of your TFs. Feed them response papers regularly and hand them your midterms with a smile. And then someday, when you yourself pupate, you may find that...
Even China's harshest critics doubt that Beijing would deliberately destroy Hong Kong, and most Hong Kong people expect life to go on much as before. "We'll do fine," says Francis Zimmern, patriarch of one of the colony's oldest families and former chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as he lunches at the old-money Hong Kong Club. "In business I've dealt with China over 50 years, and I've never got a bad check. They've never gone back on an agreement...
...America wants taste." That was the idea behind the Arch Deluxe, which the company unveiled last year after extensive testing, promoting the product as a burger for grownups. It bombed. Arch Deluxe failed to deliver on the taste front. Says franchisee LuAnn Perez, one of the company's harshest critics: "We were going to make a sign that said, 'It's the food, stupid,' and send it to the board." Janice Meyer, who covers McDonald's at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, notes, "Arch Deluxe was not really a higher-quality product...