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Diego draws in a crowd with a melange of calypso and oldies favorites outside Bertucci's, in the heart of Brattle Square. Like a Siren, he lures even the most reluctant pedestrian into a seat on the granite bench in front of him and offers them ready lapse into a summer pace of life...
Voting began at a March 15 BGLTSA community meeting and continued for a week via e-mail. Ultimately, around 100 members voted, according to BGLTSA secretary Michael K. Tan '01, whose seat will be up for election this fall...
...anything nice...Bad-mouth RICHARD NIXON never did subscribe to that. In archival material released last week, the ex-President gripes some more, about Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson's "barbaric" guests and, well, just about everything. [The agent] "could have just as easily sat in the front seat," he whines. "I, of course, was totally uncomfortable." He loved to fire off memos, once writing "Those who boycotted the Joint Session of Congress should be taken off the White House guest list, even if they had been our friends." Off a list, not with their heads...
...five-year-olds. Such an attitude made sense perhaps in an era of male suffrage and "Help Wanted: Female" classifieds. Given the disabilities attached to womanhood in 1912, it was only fair and right that a new standard of gender equality not suddenly be proclaimed just as lifeboat seats were being handed out. That deference--a somewhat more urgent variant of giving up your seat on the bus to a woman--complemented and perhaps compensated for the legal and social constraints placed on women at the time...
...British motoring organization insisted Monday that it had no plans to use Princess Diana in a seat belt campaign that critics charged was tasteless and insensitive. Politicians, police and safety organizations had condemned a reported plan by the Royal Automobile Club for a campaign claiming the princess could have survived the Aug. 31 Paris car crash if she had been wearing a rear seat belt. On the other hand, margarine tubs bearing Diana's official logo went on sale Monday -- provoking complaints about commercialism, even though the money will go to charity...