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...friends have maintained the excellent “Cambridge Common” (cambridgecommon.blogspot.com) since last April.But the close-to-home election demonstrated quite nicely the various mechanisms by which blogs influence public opinion. One of those to be sure is timeliness: blogs, unlike the Crimson, update continuously, even at odd hours of the night when both their authors and readers are putting off writing papers. Another factor is simple pluralism: unlike the world at large, Harvard has (by the most generous count) two newspapers, one of which has a publishing cycle longer than the campaign itself.Before I pat the back...
...council members and the city of Cambridge in a statement in which he promised to “stand up, speak up, and be brief.”“Any one of us could be the mayor; every two years we change the mayor. It is an odd process. I promise to serve you to the best of my ability,” said Reeves, who first served as mayor from 1992 to 1995. He was the first openly gay and black mayor in the country.City council members elect the mayor from within their own ranks every...
...they improve service, the 40-odd Chinatown bus companies are becoming a growing threat to Greyhound Lines Inc. along Eastern seaboard routes. Greyhound has been shrinking its national network because of a string of financial problems. "We have no objection to competition as long as it is on a level playing field," says Kim Plaskett, director of corporate communications at Greyhound, which now offers a special online ticket rate of $18 on its New York City--Boston route, vs. the normal $35 fare...
...away. The scope was mounted on a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster, which was engineered so that its 150-grain slug would lose less than .01 inch in altitude and reach the motel balcony with 2,370 pounds of knockdown power--enough to drop a rhinoceros. However, the odd angle of an occluding building next door meant the convict could fire the long rifle only by leaning out his window. To avoid that, he must wait until he sighted his target from the room, then run with the rifle down the hallway to the common bathroom, find it unoccupied, and hope...
...other compelling aspect of mascot craziness and odd name-changing comes in the urban legends that develop. For instance, I have no idea why Akron is named after some weird form of Kangaroo—they are apparently called the Zips—but there has to be some amazing story behind that mascot. Legends like that become campus folklore...