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County officials expect the jail's final status to be determined sometime this week, when Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Charles R. Alberti reconsiders the case Two weeks ago. Alberti ruled that Middlesex County Sheriff Edward F. Henneberry could not house prisoners there because it is a fire hazard...
However, Peter A. Vellucci, a member of the East Cambridge Citizens Planning Team, which is leading opposition to the jail, said that Alberti's original decison was based on the fact that the absence of a sprinkler system makes the jail a fire hazard. Vellucci says he remains optimistic that Alberti will oppose occupation of the jail as long as there are no plans to install a sprinkler system...
...acid test of that sort of causal theory is whether it works at the individual level, whether harsh personal misfortune really causes epiphany or just pragmatic accommodation. The jury is still out on which one 1980's political turnabout represented, but I'll hazard a guess that it was the latter, lesser phenomenon. That verdict's not based on any sophisticated contentions that the nation's temporary economic woes did in Jimmy Carter, or that the Republican resurgence was a mere public relations coup capitalizing on the ineptitude of the incumbents--though there's much in both analyses...
...roast pork and onions stand. Mimi Sheraton, the New York Times's food critic, singled out this stand as a trichinosis hazard. But it was so good
...added, "I'm continuing to insist that the jail as a fire hazard...