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From: University Wire
Date: 20031002
Author:Joe Flood

Joe Flood
University Wire
10-02-2003
(Harvard Crimson) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Puritanism: The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, might be happy. Puritan: A pious gentleman, who believed in letting all people do as he liked. -- Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary

The moment passed quietly Tuesday night, with only the sound of idle bar chatter, ESPN highlights of the days' playoff baseball games on television and hundreds of cigarettes being simultaneously extinguished to mark the abolition of smoking in all bars in Cambridge. I admit I am an occasional smoker, particularly at ...

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