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...compared letting the American government drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge??which both Barack Obama and John McCain have opposed—to “giving an alcoholic a gift certificate to the corner...
Can’t make it back to Cabot for lunch? Burned through your Board Plus? Now that our final refuge??Adams House—is enforcing dining restrictions, it’s time to fight back with this guide to vigilante justice. 1) Publicly allege that Adams has returned to its elitist roots and discriminates against whatever race you happen to be. 2) Revenge and prosper: empty the toilet paper roll dispenser, conveniently located on your way out. 3) Go to breakfast. Strike the gong. Escape as sleep-addled Adamsians struggle to apprehend...
...challenge my opinions, make me engage important ideas, camp out in the dining hall to discuss issues much more complex than we would care to admit. They are the ones who, as I walk away, leave me dazed because they are, simply, so impressive. This world is my moral refuge??and in it there is no real place for my more unfortunate social tendencies.Then there is my other world: the seedier social world, whose residents I find generally, though not universally, less remarkable, but whose company I seek out nearly every Saturday night. They roam in those eight...
...yesterday, “The term ‘roadless’ does not mean the absence of roads. Rather, it indicates an attempt to minimize the construction of permanent roads.” Wonderful news. By the same logic, one might suppose the term “wildlife refuge?? does not mean the presence of wildlife, but rather indicates an attempt to maximize the potential for wildlife habitation...
Sometimes you want to go where all the comrades know your name. The People’s Republik bar, tucked into a boxy scarlet building at 876 Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central Squares, playfully claims to offer an ideological “refuge?? from oh-so square, gentrified Cambridge. True, many of the patrons look more likely to be carrying briefcases than tattered Red Books, but hey, glasnost happens...