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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...survey of local businesses shows that the Square is a more expensive place to shop only if you shop at independent stores. Chains tend to keep their prices more or less uniform in the same area--in fact, in many instances chain prices are lower in the Square than elsewhere in metropolitan Boston...
...there are those who disagree, and on some days they convince even me. Some like the new council more, some like it less. And I tend to hear from the most passionate of both camps. This year has forced me to confront my flaws, the council's flaws and the flaws of discourse in general on campus. Because of what I have learned, this office has been one of the defining experiences of my life...
...tend to forget a couple of things about nerds. One is that despite their inability to dress for success, chat up girls or win the big homecoming game, they are often enviably--maddeningly--smart. The other is that their obsessiveness need not be confined to computer hacking. It can embrace--to take the convenient example of Max Fischer--fencing, beekeeping, astronomy, the dramatic arts and, alas, age-inappropriate lust...
...musical journey. Fishman seemed to know just when to intensify but, more importantly, when to slow things down if mass hysteria seemed to be threatening the 16,000-odd people filling the Centrum. Phish is more raw in the late nineties than ever before, and their jams tend to be faster and more rock-based than in the past. However, they have retained the ability to direct the mood of the audience. From the first furious moment of guitar virtuosity by Anastasio to the final moments before intermission, when he introduced an "old friend from Vermont," the band seemed connected...
Ironically, the show is also somewhat original by virtue of its traditional appeal. Many campus productions tend to be experimental, both in the works they select and their approaches to performing them. This Guys and Dolls isn't new or intellectual or re-interpreted in any challenging way, but it's fun. The show's very traditional aims (namely, to please) make it a rarity here, though less so in the commercial world of Broadway...