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...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously in favor of an order asserting, "Harvard Square is absolutely filthy, with litter all over and trash barrels overflowing each evening...
...like an entrance exam to a higher, harder life form. Sit with him at a restaurant in Memphis, where he is shooting the John Grisham thriller The Client, and ask something innocuous, like what he reads. "The New York Times once a week . . . and also some secret trash books that will go unnamed, stashed hither and yon. I don't trust you enough to tell you the titles of all the books I'm reading." Well, which of his parts might he call a breakthrough role? A frown. "Breakfast roll? Oh, breakthrough role. I don't have time to think...
...allegations also speak to the modern preoccupation with child abuse. In an age when lurid lyrics, sniggering sitcoms and trash-talking stars work hard to rob children of innocence, the sexually abusive parent, guardian or family friend is not only a predator in his own right but also a stand-in for all the gaudy malevolence of pop culture. "There's a social hysteria about child abuse," says Professor Melvin Guyer, a psychologist and lawyer who teaches at the University of Michigan. "It began with the McMartin Pre-School case and continued with Woody Allen. There has been a feeding...
...going to take a lot of difficult thought," Cyr said, pointing out that the requirement could affect everyone from trash collectors in the city's Department of Public Works to surgeons at Cambridge Hospital
...West Wing aide says he's now the non-Hillary person the President listens to most. It was Gergen who pushed Clinton to have dinner with Bob Dole last week, who helped dispose of the travel-office scandal and the owls-vs.-timber brouhaha. "We're taking out the trash," says a Clinton aide in the White House. "When we come back in July and go into conference on the budget, we cannot have this stuff lying around...