Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Houses, we are told, are to become our homes away from home. Yet forcing smokers to stand outside their doors to have a cigarette tarnishes this ideal. Working smokers congregate outside their office buildings for a smoke break, not outside their homes. In dire need of someone to make a cogent defense of the right to smoke in the Houses, we find critics with unsatisfying, pragmatic objections. Outgoing Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 only objected to the policy on the grounds that it would be difficult to enforce and "lots of people standing outside the House, smoking" would...
...century race theorists. Perhaps some might agree with Oppenheim that "basic models of ethics and of sexuality are two of those foundations...that preserve a society's stability." But these are same people who object to the presence of women anywhere outside the kitchen. If a society cannot with-stand the integration of queer culture, then it does not deserve to survive as it stands...
...stairs exiting the Park St. T-Station lead up to a "Fried Dough" stand, where the large-bellied man selling the dough is doing exceptionally good business. The beautiful afternoon has brought dozens of people to Boston Common, but the springtime weather and the typical Sunday crowds aren't enough to account for the long dough lines. Some customers are holding blue and white Greek flags, and one elderly man says it's Greek Independence...
Thousands of Bostonians, not all of them Greek, stand on the sidewalks of Tremont St. Elderly people chat in groups of two or three; parents buy balloons for their children and scold them for running into the street. A couple of delis across from the park have signs in the windows declaring that they are closed for the holiday; maybe their Greek owners are in line, waiting for fried dough...
...Wall Street loved Goldstone's stand, pushing up tobacco stocks as word got out. Politicians aren't panicking; negotiations aren't negotiations until someone walks away. But if the Senate is serious about saving children's lives, it will want to start right away. "Politically, there is a sense of urgency," says Van Voorst. "And to get this done in the near future, without long court battles, they'll need Big Tobacco to sign on." That's what RJR is betting...