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...wanted to rob a bank, where would you go? Harvard Square, of course! With branches of at least five major banks right here, robbers have a virtual smorgasbord. Armored cars cruise through Massachusetts Avenue at all hours, ripe for the picking. Crowds swarm in and out of buildings, automatic teller machines abound, payroll packets flit to and fro--it's a robber's paradise...
...decade really will be venerated by future chroniclers of pop culture, it may well be because the '90s have produced an appealing stable of new actors who stand in smart contrast to the so-called Brat Pack of the '80s, the cliquish band of young stars that included Nelson, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and various sons of Martin Sheen. The '90s newcomers also provide a downtown alternative to married-with-children superstars like Demi Moore or Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and a handful of others, all in their 20s and early 30s, share soulful...
...this reverie, George falls in love with Maire, who returns his affection even though she is engaged to Hugh's older son, Manus (Rob Campbell). These complications propel the characters towards the play's ambiguous conclusion...
...other troubling question is, Who pays? ``Businesses don't simply absorb increased wage costs,'' says Rob Shapiro, whom Labor Secretary Robert Reich tried hard (and unsuccessfully) to enlist as a supporter of the raise because, as a top Clinton campaign adviser, it was Shapiro who once convinced Clinton that hiking the wage was counterproductive. ``They pass them on in the form of higher prices, which are regressive because they're borne equally by all. Thus the vast majority of the 39 million poor Americans who won't benefit from a raise will be worse off, while a very...
...collective when Fitzpatrick became a regular at the group's bookstore. ``He was a pretty muscular guy with a physically intimidating presence,'' says Gunderson, who remembers Fitzpatrick trying to draw members into drug dealing and militant actions involving ``Molotov cocktails or guns or bombs.'' Fitzpatrick sold a shotgun to Rob Shapiro, another collective member. ``He said it was important that we be armed,'' says Shapiro. At a bar one night, Fitzpatrick plied the group with beer while urging them to make an armed attack on a polling place during the 1986 election. ``By the end of the evening we were...