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...said Cambridge Teachers Association President Paul Toner, who offered a scathing condemnation of the charter proposal at the beginning of last night’s meeting. “Nobody made her leave—she got frustrated and quit. This is Paula Evans’s sour grapes. In my opinion this is her getting back at the school committee...
...seems, just about anyone is. Three days after the Moscone event, PC owners had downloaded a million copies of the software and paid for a million songs (adding to the 14 million music downloads already made by Mac users). In a year when record labels hit a sour note by suing students, grandparents and 12-year-old file sharers, Jobs had effectively brokered a peace agreement: he had shown the music industry how to win friends and turn a profit on the very Internet that was being used to steal their songs...
Zwick’s keen eye for contradictions that later crop up in his work doesn’t limit itself to observing worldly issues. Asked to describe himself, a long pause seeps in, and he scrunches up his face as though he’s tasted something sour...
Packs of undergraduates slurp their Scorpion Bowls, while townies in the next booth dig into plates of chow mein and sweet and sour fish. A burly Cambridge police officer lingers by the door as an even burlier bouncer blocks the main entrance, scrutinizing questionable ID holograms under dim yellowish foyer lighting. Keeping a vigilant eye on all aspects of food and bar service, owner Paul Lee slips with discreet authority from the main-floor restaurant to the bar and dance floor on the upper levels. The raucous laughter of drunken college students and the thumping rhythms of Beyoncé form...
...Lamont, administrators have offered an unimpressive suggestion of some sort of student cafe—even more unnecessary with the Barker Center’s rotunda cafe literally across the street—to replace the highly utilized Gov Docs. What may be palatable in Hilles tastes sour nearer to the river...