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Whether grudgingly returning to campus after some precious time spent at home, shamelessly bearing witness to the Patriots’ eighth-consecutive win or simply enjoying the remnants of a deceptively short holiday, all had reason to celebrate yesterday. Collective cries for unregulated Sunday booze-buying have been well-received, effectively voiding one of Massachusetts' residual “blue laws” and making the Sabbath just another day for liquor stores to vend their wares...
Binder also remarked on the actions competing carriers were taking in order to retain their precious subscriber base...
...time: a decade or two from now. The scene: the First Church of Christ, Smoker, the only place where nicotine addicts can find sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette - a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 2007. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
Until you move away from home. You watch from afar as your precious college team struggles and falls to a team from a nowhere conference like the Sun Belt. Wham, bam—a couple bad plays and that bowl berth is looking pretty slim...
...Cambridge, sophisticated Cambridge, Cambridge with its 17 independent bookstores for every one Republican, is perhaps not the ideal training ground for real life. It turns out that the world extends beyond Harvard Square—beyond Porter Square, even—and what’s out there looks precious little like life on the inside...