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...undercover as a pimp. He bristles, saying, "I don't see why the color of my skin automatically makes me a prime candidate to portray a pimp." (The captain, bristling back, says he'll get someone else for the job: "We've got plenty of guys in this precinct who are very much at home around prostitutes.") Rarely has TV portrayed casual racial stereotyping with as much humor or human understanding. Cop-show stereotypes come in for even more satire. The police in this California backwater are a far cry from the cool, macho professionals who have populated TV dramas...
Chip W. Hellar '96 was circulating a petition at the Peabody School precinct to use money from the gasoline tax to finance road and bridge repairs and create jobs...
Evelyn N. Godinho circulated an initiative outside the Harrington School precinct to create a graduated income tax in Massachusetts...
...Cambridge police officer was stationed at each precinct to ensure that proper election procedures were followed...
...added that there was no evidence that the turnout by CCA supporters had decreased any more than the turnout of the city at large. He said the apparent results could be due to a change in precinct lines since the last election...