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...meeting last Monday, the City Council proposed to raise annual salaries for council members by nearly $10,000 to $52,500. They also proposed to raise the salaries of school committee members by almost $5,000 to $25,900not minor pay hikes. However, the agenda made no formal mention of the salary increase, saying only that it was a "recommended amendment to the Cambridge Municipal Code." The council later voted, 6-3, against giving the matter a public hearing...
...extraordinary efficacy of the Love Bug was caused partly by its timing, striking as it did on a busy weekday morning, but also by its seductiveness. It was a minor masterpiece of what hackers like to call "social engineering"--in other words, manipulating the rubes. Few of the lonely hearts among cubicle dwellers could resist its siren song. (This reporter couldn't--and paid the price in lost files...
...That minor touch of daring is a hint of what CBS might have made of the New Testament's complex conflict. But as far as Jesus is concerned, that remains the greatest story never told...
...fact, this theme of minor elements succeeding while major aspects fail becomes the model for Hamlet. In one characteristic self-berating monologue, Hawke scrutinizes James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, asking, "What would he do?"-something which nicely crystallizes Hamlet's vacillation. Hamlet screaming at Gertrude to "Leave wringing of your hands" as she dives for a telephone, and placing a recording wire on Ophelia so Polonius can eavesdrop on her conversation with Hamlet are all commendable directorial choices, but the work becomes spoiled with major misinterpretation. As the play was origianlly written, Hamlet chooses not to kill Claudius...
Forst played minor league ball in the Frontier League for two years, becoming a fixture at short for the Springfield Capitals. He sat in dugouts that make Harvard's dugout benches look like luxury boxes. He endured twelve-hour bus rides from North Nowhere to East Hickville. He was occasionally hosted by families in the towns he visited, as he made barely enough cash to keep him going. And he cherished every minute...