Short takes
Jun. 3rd, 2004 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidThe MA House has approved a bill to ban smoking in bars and restaurants statewide as of July 5. Now it goes on to the Senate, and Romney has already said he'd sign if it gets to his desk. I find it interesting that the state is so quickly following Boston (and Cambridge, but they were after Boston).
There was an ad in this month's Hadassah magazine offering discounts on certain prescription drugs shipped to you directly from... Israel. Interesting.
I hear the term "revolving president" and keep thinking that he'd be perfect in a museum-go-round. Or is that what his presidential library would be like?
There's an annual Booker prize, which can only go to the author of a novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former Commonwealth country. Now the same group (the UK National Book League) is starting a prize for international fiction, for any book written in or widely translated into English. Interesting.
There's a new mural on the movie theater on Church St. in Harvard Square. It has a number of movie characters, including some non-human ones, and to me doesn't quite fit in with the others that are already there, but some of that is just getting used to the new, I think.
There was an ad in this month's Hadassah magazine offering discounts on certain prescription drugs shipped to you directly from... Israel. Interesting.
I hear the term "revolving president" and keep thinking that he'd be perfect in a museum-go-round. Or is that what his presidential library would be like?
There's an annual Booker prize, which can only go to the author of a novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former Commonwealth country. Now the same group (the UK National Book League) is starting a prize for international fiction, for any book written in or widely translated into English. Interesting.
There's a new mural on the movie theater on Church St. in Harvard Square. It has a number of movie characters, including some non-human ones, and to me doesn't quite fit in with the others that are already there, but some of that is just getting used to the new, I think.