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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, seniors were permitted to vote for candidates of either sex. Voters received two ballots, one with eight male candidates and one with eight female candidates. On each ballot, the candidate with the most votes became a First Marhsl and the three runners-up became marshals...

Author: By Richard P. Nagel, | Title: McNulty and Owens Win Elections for '80 Marshals | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

THERE'S ONLY ONE STORY I'll ever tell." A whore stood with her pink thumb out to the road, blocking his cab stand. He interrupted himself, stomped the accelerator and rammed his front bumper up to the whore's tinsel dress...and stopped...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...Bitch," he muttered, and the girl ran away. "Like I was saying, one story. I was doing a search and destroy with this guy, on a five-mile perimeter. He was a--well, I didn't like him much. He was from Oklahoma, he was losing teeth, he was one of those ignorant bastards they have to teach hygiene to, you know? But in the situation, I had to respect him, you know. So we are walking in the jungle, looking out mostly for animals and the Okie looked like he was walking down Madison Avenue for the first time...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...bridge connects Boston and Cambridge. They call it the Harvard Bridge. The bridge is calibrated in marks of orange paint, saying: 75 Smoots...100 Smoots...150 Smoots...200 Smoots...360 Smoots and one ear all the way to the MIT campus with its swelling Greek temples and plate-glass buildings. The buildings have no names; they are numbered...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

...read his poetry--Reza Berahini... and a mob of Iranian students delayed the lecture for hours. There was a bomb threat. The Americans were scared. The Iranians said Berahini was a CIA agent. Yet he was an anti-Shah poet--he spent years in jail. So finally, Chomsky let one of the students speak at the podium, and the student waxes hot-faced and apologizes to the crowd for the disturbance. He says he is sorry for what he has to say, and he reads a poem by Berahini which has the words "shit" and "fuck" in it. He says...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Color of Their Brains | 12/8/1979 | See Source »

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