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Since we are at Hahvahd, it just might come to sit-ins. The local community is very attached to its precious conception of quaint old Cambridge. Anything bordering on a Mcburger might as well be the Mcplague...
Never mind that his precious "recognition" might be expedited if the lazy pseudo-intellectuals at 21 South Street bothered to take time out from ponderous autohagiography to distribute their magazine with any consistency; the prodgious talent that shines forth from the dingy building is so bright that the rest of us should have the good sense to seek it out on our own time and at our own expense, as though that rickety, infested partyrental fire-traps were some poetic Lourdes...
...this precious space, campus forum, personal identity campaign, you will find none of the following: inspiring commentary on the pressing political events of the day (i don't know what they are; where the hell is that newspaper anyway?), amusing ridicule of our hapless student government (self-parody speaks volumes, oops), or even entertaining analysis of quirky personalities (unless autobiography counts, i generously surmise...
...course of his employment, Hogue smuggleda cache of gold, silver, rubies, opals and morethan 100 other precious and non-precious gems andminerals to his apartment at One Marion St. inSomerville...
...idea of stickups inside some of the world's glossy, high-tech laboratories and computer warehouses is a bit incongruous, unless one considers that computer chips are a robber's dream -- very precious (up to $900 for the newest models) and easy to conceal (the size of matchbooks when sealed inside their cases). And these days they are in high demand: the worldwide market for personal computers grew 8%, to $68 billion, in 1993. The main target of thieves is the Intel 486 chip that powers most new IBM PC and IBM-compatible machines; such chips are now in more...