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...fall’s major campus concert. “We are confident that the HCC has it right this year,” we exclaimed at the time. “Wyclef will certainly stir significant interest.” Ultimately, however, the concert was an unmitigated failure. Ticket sales were so abysmal that the whole affair was called off less than a week beforehand, costing the UC more than $25,000 in lost deposits. A vaguely introspective campaign of self-flagellation followed, but a few weeks’ worth of audits and investigations produced little immediate change.The Council...
...line.And whether we were in season or not, there was always room on the couch—I’ll never forget leaping into his arms when Scott Norwood pushed his game-winning field goal wide—or, better still, at the stadium. Yankees tickets were relatively easy to come by, and we’d often head into the Bronx, gloves in tow, before it was decided by my younger brother and sister that I was the reason the Pinstripes lost every time we saw them play live. Fortunately for me, Dad had been a Giants season...
...them: as the number of cars in the Square expanded, parking facilities barely grew at all, and congestion in Harvard Square began to reach epic proportions. Most Harvard motorists had to navigate a series of hurdles as they tried to park their cars, including the ever-present threats of tickets and towings, and a 1930 city ordinance that prohibited overnight parking on public roads.HELL ON WHEELSThe students who had cars found resourceful ways to deal with Cambridge authorities. In December 1955, City Councillor Marcus Morton called for what The Crimson labeled a “full-scale attack?...
...Senate Finance Committee from 1987-92 and Bill Clinton's first Treasury Secretary, the pro-choice, pro-business Democrat was widely admired as a bipartisan coalition builder. Yet Bentsen will be forever remembered for a singularly potent moment during a 1988 debate. The vice presidential candidate on Michael Dukakis' ticket, he bridled at Dan Quayle, then 41 and a Senator from Indiana, who was defending his youth and experience by comparing himself to John F. Kennedy. "Senator," Bentsen said, seething, "I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator...
...Senate Finance Committee from 1987-92 and Bill Clinton's first Treasury Secretary, the pro-choice, pro-business Democrat was widely admired as a bipartisan coalition builder. Yet Bentsen will be forever remembered for a singularly potent moment during a 1988 debate. The vice presidential candidate on Michael Dukakis' ticket, he bridled at Dan Quayle, then 41 and a Senator from Indiana, who was defending his youth and experience by comparing himself to John F. Kennedy. "Senator," Bentsen said, seething, "I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator...