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...charged with indecent exposure for dropping his pants in front of a group of women. He then gave them his phone number and address and dared them to turn him in. (As good Singaporeans, they did. Leeson was fined $140.) One of his favorite hangouts was Harry's Pub, a small dark bar where the sounds of a jazz trio pour out onto a stone walkway. Says Mary Bell, a Singapore family therapist who works mostly with expatriates: "They really are just kids. When they are all together at Harry's Pub, it seems like they are a universe unto...
...reputation as Barings' master of SIMEX grew, however, Leeson's tastes changed. He gradually spent less and less time in Harry's Pub and moved upmarket to a row of bars closer to home. One of those he favored was 5 Emerald Hill, an understated establishment favored by the artistic community. There, surrounded by walls of peeling paint and cooled by electric fans, he would listen to blues and soul in the evening, drinking gin and tonics or whiskey, perhaps staring at the apple slices in the giant jar of vodka or the bottled snake on the liquor shelf. When...
...Undergraduates retreat to the local pub, the Serf'n Turf, to regroup. There, Sasha Nidiot (a Cliff Clavin parody played by Nick Gordon '95), informs us that it's nice to be where everybody knows your name. And we learn that Dusty Yevsky, a local cowboy and poet, has a crush on a singing cow, Bess Western ("But soft," Mr. Yevsky exclaims passionately, "what light from yonder bovine breaks." Sadly, Ms. Western has her doubts. "I don't feel right dating someone who's higher up on the food chain," she demurs...
...also lived with a man who beat her in front of them. (``He never, ever touched the kids,'' she says defensively. ``You gotta give him that.'') Once, when she and her brood were staying in a welfare hotel, she locked them inside the flat and went to a pub; there was a fire, and the children were injured. Social Services removed them to foster homes...
...pub's dedicated patrons say the bar is a microcosm of Riverside, the Cambridge neighborhood in which it is located...