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Bisnow's light, funny presentation offers more than just political trivia. Diary is a lesson to all voters, as well as any candidate seeking to rise to national prominence from relatively obscure ranks in 1984-Reuben Askew, and the slowly popularized Gary Hart come to mind...
...those bits of cultural trivia rarely dwelt on is the way female foreigners are treated on Continental streets. A woman may visit Paris, to be sure. With a man to accompany her, she may even walk the public streets, sit in a cafe, pause to enjoy a famous sight or rest her legs. If the man is missing, things will be equally simple: she will merely be presumed, at every moment of every day, to be holding open auditions for the role...
...book is clearly the model for Neal Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom's Bunyanesque effort to package the long-and shortcomings of each state in one readable volume. Peirce, a syndicated columnist, and Hagstrom, both editors of the Government affairs weekly National Journal, offer a mint of trivia: the country's longest front porch is at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich.; Georgia leads in poultry production; Louisiana is first in frogs' legs...
...Boathocse (56 JFK St.): One of the newest bars, it is also one of the most popular among students Decorated in basic crew with authentic wood shells and team shirts, the Boathouse features a discount wheel and trivia questions during happy hour--4-6 p.m. daily--and free hot dogs on weekends. Manager Michael Meehan says he seeks a "good" crowd, i.e., don't wear a T-shirt. Draught beer served at $1.25 domestic and $1.75 imported, while mixed drinks run from...
Many of them were created by T. Logan Evans'85 council member during the fall. Declaring that he believed "in a unification of the planet with in the U.S. system" in his "Theory of the Cosmopolis," Evans sought the council's chairman-ship proposing massive weekly trivia quizzes in Harvard Yard and town meetings in Sanders Theater, Brian L. Melendez '86, the council's vice-chairman, believes Evans saw the council as the "stepping stone to world domination...