Word: meals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...encountering manic-depressive prom queens, time-warped cocktail waitresses, avenging ice-cream truck drivers and shaver-brandishing slam dancers around every corner. For Paul, the evening had begun innocently enough, running into Beautiful Stranger Marcie (Rosanna Arquette) at a mid-town diner as each pretended to enjoy a solitary meal. In no time at all, the two exchange phone numbers, and after checking the cable T.V. schedule for the evening, Paul decides to try his luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect of purchasing one of her off-beat roommate's bagel and cream cheese sculptures...
...full meal, from gumbo to pecans, runs just under $25, cash only. The quality should be quite consistent, because chef John Silberman, a former Prudhomme apprentice, personally prepares every dish, six nights a week...
Thus there has been no known case of infection by so-called casual contact: being in the same room with an AIDS victim, sharing a meal or a bathroom, being sneezed on, even hugging and social kissing. Members of families who have lived in intimate non-sexual contact with AIDS victims for many years have yet to produce a single documented case of the disease. No doctor, nurse, dental technician or other "health-care provider," to use the medical jargon, in the U.S. is known to have picked up AIDS from a patient. (A nurse in Britain who contracted...
...argue that the purchase of those books--also not covered by Harvard's tuition--is of much greater educational value than the purchase of meals. Why, I ask, must students be forced to needlessly pay for meals that Harvard ought to have covered in its meal plan when they could be buying books...
This is not a plea for a handout. But it indicates very clearly administrative failure. Simply put, freshmen this year will receive meals during the week from the 11th to the 18th of September as part of their meal plans. Upperclass men and women pay the exact same tuition and room and board as do freshmen but do not receive the same in return. This is clearly an unethical business practice...