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...coffee, cigarettes and politics. A generation ago, smoke-filled establishments like these were hotbeds of debate about environmental catastrophes and the risk of nuclear war. But the patrons' obsessions have grown slightly more mundane. "The tax system here is driving us all to hell," says Max Wirtz, 37, the owner of an event-management agency. "Everything is too regulated." His friend Matthias, 37, nods in agreement and says what attracted him to the conservative Christian Democratic Party was a radical idea: a flat tax. "I wasn't thinking of voting for them up to that point," he says. "But that...
Police arrested the shop’s owner, Duncan W. Purdy, on Oct. 7, and seized $1,608, a digital camera Purdy has used to shoot nude photos, and a computer...
...number of shelters across Louisiana to "come back and work" in New Orleans, many angry former residents retorted that they were tired of hearing empty promises. "Before Katrina, the man used to give us straight yes and no answers, and we liked that," says John Washington, 40, an owner of a small print shop who lives in the city's Ninth Ward, perhaps the hardest hit by the hurricane. "But I guess you never really know the measure of a man until disaster strikes...
...It’s really convenient to have outside the walls of Harvard a whole city of stores at your exposure,” said Rafael F. Garcia ’09, who is from suburban Chicago. These stores range from an array of ethnic restaurants to owner-operated businesses. Late at night, Harvard students and Cambridge residents alike can be found at Felipe’s Taqueria, a fast-food Mexican restaurant that contributes to Cambridge’s unique character. Cambridge is “a very rich cultural place. Cambridge has every type of food that...
...Taylor’s efforts to add his own mark to what is otherwise an amalgam of Rowling and Bible have the desired effect. Raphah, the guardian of the Keruvim, sets the plot in motion when he arrives in Yorkshire from Africa to return the talisman to its rightful owner. Taylor has said in interviews that Raphah was meant to atone for the paucity of black heroes in children’s literature. An admirable goal, but in the novel, anyway, Taylor fails to address the implications of his hero’s origins—even when Demurral takes...