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Though these Tories had money, they weren't a majority in the city; historian S.B. Sutton estimates they comprised at best 10 per cent of the population and that many of the rest were among the colony's most rabid patriots. September 2, 1774, after the British raided a Somerville powderhouse, thousands of Cantabrigians gathered on the steps of the city's courthouse to demand action, and some shattered windows in the mansions of local Tories...
...issue of changing the calendar comes down to a familiar one for the Faculty, pitting educational against financial interests. Olsen says a quarter of a million dollars in energy savings ought to offset the hassles of the change. "I never said there weren't going to be problems. I just said they could be worked out," he says. But Fox says he must see savings of more on the order of a half million dollars before considering educational concessions. "It would have to be a significant amount in savings for us to make an educational decision that many would deplore...
...ailing magazine last week to Robert I. Weingarten, 38, owner of Financial World (circ. 59,000), an investment magazine. The purchase price was not revealed. Says Tucker, who will stay on as editor of Saturday Review (circ. 500,000): "Going at the speed we were going at, we weren't going to get from here to there...
...three sisters had to sleep in one bed. I slept in the kitchen with four brothers. None of us had any money, and if we had, there was nothing to buy. I and my friends often talked secretly about leaving Cuba. The problem was how. We weren't ex-political prisoners, who could get out. We were just prisoners...
...murdered--in the film and in reality as well. It is now illegal to make such films in the U.S., yet they are still imported and shown and turn a profit. As Linda Lovelace commented, referring to her period of sexual slavery, "I thank God today that they weren't making snuff movies back then." In this case, as in every other, the huge profits from the pornography go to the people in charge--the pimps...