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Then, even before Dole hip-hopped over to the rock-'n'-roll museum, I heard on CBC radio about bowling with frozen chickens in Wellington, New Zealand. The interviewee was the marketing manager of a pub called the Fat Ladies' Arms. (No, I don't want to comment on that name right...
...pictured this pub as full of young fun lovers who use "party" as a verb. One night a week, customers bowl with frozen chickens. At least the chickens start out frozen. So much for the common belief among Americans that there's not a whole lot to do in Wellington, New Zealand...
...wider disparity. These statistics represent the median family income, percentage of families below the poverty level and the percentage of labor force unemployed in Area Four and throughout Cambridge.Jenny M. Fu, Joshua J. SchankerCrimsonCity Income Poverty UnemploymentEast Cambridge $37,013 2.8% 6.0%MIT/Area 2 25,000 13.0 3.2Wellington-Herrington 32,615 8.6 6.5Area 4 26,836 18.6 10.8Cambridgeport 32,432 6.9 5.7Mid-Cambridge 50,272 3.5 3.7Riverside 32,746 9.9 4.4Agassiz 55,407 1.1 4.0Area 9 52,721 4.8 5.0Area 10 73,300 2.7 2.6North Cambridge 37,236 9.7 6.1Highlands...
...with him. Other children, no surprise, found him rather strange, and he quickly stopped trying to prove otherwise. He found books more reliable than friends, particularly tales of men who brought old empires crashing down and built new ones in their place. Everyone from Ataturk to the Duke of Wellington, Abraham Lincoln to Father Flanagan, figures somewhere in his pantheon. If people don't like him, if they mock his aspirations or despise his principles, he doesn't much care--as long as they read about...
...setting, her prose might best be described as "racing." It dashes through the offices of Mademoiselle and Vogue. It darts into the dress stores where she acquired the right coloration. It pauses for the dinner parties at which her cooking graduated from veal wrapped around Jones sausages to beef Wellington. Inevitably, it lands her in a shrink's office, where she tried to come to terms with the ghost of a "perfect" father who died when...