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...flame that first lit Grey's fuse was a riverboat casino in Galena, Illinois, the quaint Mississippi River town where he lived quietly with his wife and served as the local Methodist pastor. In 1991, 81% of the townspeople voted against playing host to the boat, but the referendum was nonbinding, and local officials, thirsting for revenue, invited it to dock anyway. "I got mad," recalls Grey. Now, with this nationwide campaign, he adds, "I'm getting even." This hometown fight led to invitations to speak in Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and other states grappling with a riverboat onslaught. Grey...
Harvard's ivy-lined brick edifices and quaint landmarks often present a facade of tranquility. The tourists who flock to the Yard in droves probably assume that this campus is quiet and safe. However, most Harvard students are aware that their campus is not immune to violent crime. Over the past few months, a series of break-ins in Matthews Hall and an assault and attempted rape near Adams House have dramatized just how dangerous Harvard can be. Criminals are roaming the streets of Cambridge, and they see Harvard students as easy prey. There are many precautions that students...
...money may not be paramount in a field where four or five candidates insist on dividing the anti-Pat vote. That's because the rules for selecting delegates are different in the primary states that come later in the race. Until now, the primary calendar has been an almost quaint exercise in good government. Almost all the delegates apportioned so far have been handed out fair and square, one man, one vote--the candidate with 30% of the vote got about 30% of the delegates...
...evoke a film, it helps to have moving pictures, and The Battle over Citizen Kane, which runs the lives of Welles and Hearst on parallel tracks until they collide in 1941, is a two-hour tornado of a documentary, with rare clips of the 1936 Macbeth, some quaint home movies of Hearst's costume parties, reminiscences by such Welles colleagues as lighting designer Abe Feder (still jazzy after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer and delivered by Cramer with tart authority, like...
...streets of Shanghai glow from the neon lights of Coca-Cola and Gillette billboards. In the Chinese cities, the Communist murals seem but a quaint reminder of the present government's origins. The capitalist zeitgeist is present there and is growing immeasurably stronger each year. So when I went window-shopping on the Bund three years ago, it was easy to imagine that Shanghai's earlier days as an international trade center had never been interrupted...