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Five years ago, Robert Downey Jr. enjoyed the Academy Awards from a choice orchestra seat in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, honored as a Best Actor nominee for his acclaimed performance in the biopic Chaplin. During last month's ceremony his vantage point wasn't quite so glamorous: he watched the show on television through steel bars at the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail, where he was serving time for violating probation after testing positive for drugs...
...Minutemen" and in a footnote proudly points to the fact that only 16 percent of Harvard graduates were on the rebels' list of Tory sympathizers. The campus itself--which according to President and member of the Class of 1790 Josiah Quincy's bicentennial history had served as the seat of government since 1769--heard of the shots in Lexington, ejected tea-drinking students and prepared to host the first meetings of the Continental Army...
...enter the same store where I had been so energetically served the day before. The same salesman greets me as I enter, but remains at his seat behind the counter, flipping through a comic book. I wandered around the nearly empty store, passing the counter a number of times as though in search of a certain item. Still, no one approached me to ask if I needed help. Finally, when I neared another salesman, he politely asked if he could help me. The respect in his voice contrasted with the easy, presumptuously friendly tone of yesterday's salesman. I decline...
...candidates have declared their intent to vie for the state legislature seat representing the 28th district by obtaining the necessary preliminary papers, according to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office...
Despite the absence of Republican candidates in the 28th during the last 34 years, Potvin argues that the large number of Democratic candidates for the seat will only serve to weaken the Democratic side come the September primary...