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Benjamin N. Smith
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Linguistic Liberties
N OT LONG AGO, when I was back home in the nether-parts of Virginia, I attended a soiree with all
Those Back-to-School Blues
E VERY YEAR around this time, I have to live through an ordeal. I am sitting at the lunch table,
A Fatal Mistake
V ERY RARELY CAN a person recall the exact moment of the life-shattering mistake which ruined his or her life,
Square Ordeal
O NE DAY I was walking in front of Holyoke Center, minding my own business, when something extraordinary happened. I
Trouble With Tables
T HE OTHER NIGHT, sulking through my dining hall, bouncing from the Spanish Table to the Hebrew Table, avoiding the
A Section in Hell
T HE OTHER DAY, spurred by a fear that I had heard something moving around inside, I cleaned out my
Professing Some Hatred
T HE OTHER DAY at lunch, as I sat there trying to figure out what kind of sea creatures, if
Brazil's Flying Circus
Brazil Directed by Terry Gilliam At the Harvard Square Theatre and the USA Copley Place T HERE HAS ALWAYS been
Harvard Health Plan Settlement Averts Strike
Three hundred and fifty non-medical employees of the Cambridge and Kenmore Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) remained on the job
Thanks for the Blues
I HAVE TO ADMIT that it seemed like a good idea at first. I had never had the opportunity to
Adult Responsibilities
A GREAT DEAL of praise has already been lavished on the concerned citizens and legislators who have kindly saved 20-year
Maxie Misses By a Mile
B efore Maxie was even halfway over, I began looking for a bag to wear over my head on the
Special Duty
E VERY YEAR around this time, I have to live through an ordeal. I am sitting at the lunch table,
A Ride on the Wild Side
H UNTING for heroin addicts in the stairwell of an unlit, urine-scented housing project, Officers Michael C. O'Hara and Richard
Southern Discomfort
W HEN I LOOK back on it, I guess I can blame the Army. Somewhere back in the early '70s,
