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Letterman still has the funnier show by far, but his nightly psychodrama is getting harder to watch. The Oscar experience obviously continues to sting; Dave keeps obsessing about it in his jokes. The Top 10 lists are spilling over from self-parody into self-loathing. "Top 10 Insults for Dave Letterman," went a recent one. ("Letterman, let's face it--you put the 'suck' in success.") Clearly, Dave needs a lift, but The Late Shift isn't going...
Thanks to an aggressive effort by Cambridge's tobacco campaign program, it is now harder for young people to puff away their health. A recent sting operation by the program revealed that the supply of cigarettes available to minors from local vendors is becoming increasingly scarce. Of the Harvard Square merchants investigated in December, only 15 percent sold cigarettes to teenagers, down from 70 percent last February...
Businesses that allegedly sold cigarettes to the undercover teens, such as the Hong Kong restaurant, will face stiff fines and risk having their tobacco licenses revoked. A 25-cent tobacco tax approved in a 1992 statewide referendum both funded the sting operation and made smoking more expensive for teens...
...Extension School art student was the subject of a police sting operation at a Cambridge photography lab after taking nude photographs...
...CHIEFTAINS The Long Black Veil (RCA). Ireland's favorite sextet comes to call, the pipes and flutes and fiddles and all, with a breakthrough album after only thirtysomething years together. Paddy Moloney's charts for vocalists from Ireland (Van Morrison), England (Sting), Wales (Tom Jones) and Scotland (Mark Knopfler) do more than revive a splendid set of ancient airs. They are delicious dirges that could wake the dead. Keen music...