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...What else is there to know, right? Wrong. FM digs into Harvard’s Archives to pull up some of the lesser-known Harvard slang. Take a look: 1) LoHo – Lowell House 2) Clubbie – a member of a final club 3) River Rat – one who lives in a River House 4) The Dump – Dunster House 5) A Poonster – a member of a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine 6) SOS – shuttle...
Quality-of-life issues are the task of any local government. But few places bring quite as much passion to the day-to-day problems of city life as Cambridge does. Case-in-point: the rat problem. Though the councillors themselves have rarely delved into discussions of the city’s rodent infestation in the past two years, citizen speakers are often eager to bring the pest problem to the councillors’ attention. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW) operates a rat hotline, where citizens can report rat sightings or get help keeping rats from entering their...
...watchmen, leading to the nickname "Fortress Fallujah." "It's an unfortunate side effect of securing the city," Miller explained, reminding his Iraqi partners that the main drag through the city, which used to feed the district its lifeblood of customers and commercial traffic, is also part of the traditional "rat line" or infiltration route for insurgents...
...rat for more than 12 years, lifting weights, running on the treadmill and doing high-impact aerobics. I was always getting injured and often had to go to a chiropractor. Now that I have been doing yoga, my pain has subsided, and I don't need a chiropractor. Kiana Martinez, Los Angeles...
LEAVE IT TO THE COMEDIAN to have the last laugh. Joey Bishop outlived all the more famous--and more raucous--Rat Packers. By the 1960s he had earned stardom alongside buddies Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. But he was never completely overshadowed by the better-known members of his cohort. In 1960 TIME wrote, "Theoretically, Joey has bottom billing, [but] as soon as he starts talking he is recognized as top banana in a newly assembled comedy act that is breaking up Vegas." Bishop later appeared in his own sitcom and filled in about...