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...ordinance defines aggressive solicitation as "approaching or following pedestrians, repetitive soliciting despite refusals, threatening or intimidating behavior, unwanted physical contact or the intentional blocking of pedestrian and vehicular traffic...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Aggressive' Panhandling Outlawed by Boston City Council | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

...INTERN Don't cross Hizzoner: Giuliani fires kid employee who razzes new pedestrian barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...book's second section, "Trouble on Spaceship Earth," sounds like the title of a Discovery Channel special, and the subject matter is suspiciously similar. When Holub dispenses unqualified environmental advice and chastises trendy scientific theorists, his otherwise sparkling essays acquire the atmosphere of soapbox sermons. The otherwise pedestrian chapter is punctuated by a few gems, such as "What the Nose Knows," a Proustian reverie on the atavistic power of scent, and the powerful "Shedding Life," which might have been titled "Killing a Muskrat" in homage to Orwell. The final section, "No," manages to redeem the second by drawing...

Author: By Joshua Derman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plasma Meets Politics in 'Shedding Life' | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...this issue simply too pedestrian and unsophisticated to be a cause for concern? --Andrew Gossen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Focus on Grad Student Stress | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...seat among the audience and into the witness stand. Prosecuting Counselor Clamence (Claire Farley '01) accuses him of complicity in the actors' murders: by doing nothing to prevent the players' deaths, she argues, Roulleau is no less culpable than a bystander who doesn't warn an oblivious pedestrian in the path of a train. This premise sets Groundlings rolling, and the rest of the one-act play is devoted to Roulleau's Kafka-esque trial. The ensuing action alternates between the troupe's re-enactment of Hamlet's murders, which the prosecution displays in the form of a plaintiff...

Author: By Joshua Derman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Exit: Insightful Student-Written Play Shows Audience Complicity | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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