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...right, reading a political humorist for details about the World Bank is as sensible as studying Oliver Stone's movie JFK for the facts of the Kennedy assassination. O'Rourke is after larger truths. But even the internal consistency of All the Trouble in the World is skewed. For example, to score points off former communists, O'Rourke catalogs the vast costs of pollution in the Czech Republic, but elsewhere he calls an unpolluted environment a "luxury good" and derides clean-up programs in the U.S. In one part of the book pollution helps trees; in another it kills them...
...seem most enthused about Head of the Charles are those who own businesses in Harvard Square. This past weekend, hotels were booked, restaurants had hour-long waits, and bars were just plain madhouses. But with lines outside the Crimson Sports Grille and the Spaghetti Club extending into JFK Street, it perhaps was a better idea to slouch back home, instead...
...Head of the Charles is a giant hassle," says Annie P. Tucker '97, an Eliot resident. "It is mayhem. I have no desire to be here, but I will be. I am certain I will be awakened early on Sunday by the rioting on JFK...
...prepared to spend your evenings listening to drunken interchanges between visitors hunting for Mount Auburn Street and visitors in search of JFK, and your mornings offering them (now hung-over but still confused) directions to the T. For amusement, however, you'll have the fun of watching some Crimson Key guide try to explain the empty bottles littering the Yard to a flock of minicam-toting parents...
Bill Clinton and JFK. Me and Keanu. It was a start...