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...HUPD stopped two men suspected of trying to steal milk from Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square. Police issued a no trespass warning...
...their patience over extravagant fuel prices and the country ran out of gas. A mere handful of truckers and farmers--not more than 2,500--shut down the world's fourth largest economy, blockading refineries and supply depots, emptying nearly every filling station, propelling panicked buyers to strip milk and bread from market shelves, closing schools and businesses, provoking the Queen to grant Blair broad emergency powers. In the end, he didn't need them. The savvy protesters claimed "moral victory" and broke up their gas embargo before the nationwide disruption caused what Blair had predicted: "real damage to real...
...might think the choice should be easy. If you favor strict federal regulation of how much milk you may put on your cereal in the morning, vote for Ralph. If you favor the death penalty for anyone referring to Reagan National Airport as National Airport, vote for Pat. But the differences between the two are not as great as they seem...
Still, the passing of the 85-cent fare will have its place in the emotional history of the city. The price of a subway token, after all, is like the price of baseball cards or a gallon of milk: it's one of the measures by which each generation of Americans complains about the next. For every one of us, the day will come when we will catch ourselves reminiscing to our children--or maybe just to first-years --about the days when a T ride only cost 85 cents (and when the bleacher seats at old Fenway Park were...
...Coke was adequate, and the shake interesting. The vanilla tasted more like French vanilla - a hint of butterscotch? - and the texture was pillowy, as if it somehow wasn't frozen. It had little of that wonderful icy "crunch" sometimes to be found in other fast-food milk shakes. But it grew on me, and soon I pushed away the last bites of cheeseburger (and many uneaten fries) and lingered sipping my dessert...