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Ruggles has had to deal with the Cambridge License Commission, whose ban on new liquor licenses in Harvard Square was first unofficial, then unwritten, and now just inconsistent...
...latest Ruggles application was denied earlier this month because it was filed two years late, after an unwritten ban was established in 1983 on new liquor licenses in Harvard Square, according to Cambridge License Commission Chairman James T. McDavitt...
...former member of the National Alcohol Fuels Commission, Democratic Congressman Bill Alexander of Arkansas wanted to take advantage of the August recess to inspect Brazil's production of ethanol. It is an unwritten House rule that Congressmen can request the services of a Pentagon plane only if three or four of them travel together. So Alexander invited four of his colleagues to join him on his six-day sojourn. He sent their names to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who asked the Pentagon to secure a jet for the group. But when the Air Force C-9 took...
...answer then fits into a larger set of unwritten assumption that seem to underlie a good deal of the speeches, lectures and writing at Harvard. You're free to express any ideas you want. But unless you say otherwise, it's taken for granted you're working with the same basic ideas as everyone else. And because the basic ideas usually go unwritten, they are often automatically accepted as true...
...Cunha also felt it necessary to single out Kyle Dodson and Bill Mohler for their roles in the scuffle. Again, I take great offense to this for several reasons. First, Kyle and Bill were only doing their duty as a teammate. There is an unwritten rule in team sports that team members came to the aid of another in a fight, whether to keep others away from the action or to pull entangled combatants away from each other. (Pro hockey and baseball and examples where this often occurs.) Kyle and Bill were doing just this, and I am grateful...