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Another of CLAB's goals is to step up court actions against underage drinkers "instead of just a slap on wrist," said Richard V. Scali, executive director of the Cambridge License Commission...
...sport once dominated by Americans, but today China, Australia, Germany, Hungary and Russia produce champions. No wonder Hall, a 6-ft. 6-in., 185-lb. 21-year-old who may be the most gifted U.S. swimmer since Mark Spitz, cracks his knuckles and fiddles nervously with a copper wrist bracelet--a souvenir from his first Dead concert. "I'm 10 feet from the top of the mountain," he says. "When you're that close, you keep climbing. It is within grasp...
...many pop songs inhabit emotional extremes--the juice of ecstasy, the razor on the wrist of despair--that someone writing about the middle ground most of us occupy most of the time can sound like a pioneer of the everyday. Peters extracts muted poetry from lives that might seem either prosaic, like taxi drivers (A Room with a View) and people locked in a traffic jam (Waiting for the Light to Turn Green), or dangerous (Circus Girl). Carmelita, in Border Town, leaves her own baby at home "to love somebody else's child" as a nanny: "She keeps her distance...
...news came early in the season when sophomore Dan Ezra was lost for the regular season due to a broken wrist. The favorite for one of the top two seeds, Ezra was the defending runner-up at the NISRA Singles Championships to co-captain Tal Ben-Shachar...
...life of the president of the council might well include phone calls from Time magazine, Harvard administrators and concerned off-campus activists. In short, council executives are very important people. If they talk sense, people will listen. Though the council may spend a majority of its time fighting for wrist pads and computers, its raison d'etre is its unique ability to represent students on all issues. We need services, but we need a voice at Harvard and beyond. Hats off to the candidate with that philosophy. He or she will most definitely get my vote...