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Editorial: Gustatory power grab

01:00 AM EST on Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The privileges of power reach high and low. Consider Rhode Island state Sen. Juan Pichardo, of Providence, who tried to compel the owner of an Olneyville hot-dog restaurant to open up after it had closed for the day.

“I’m a state senator!” emphasized the statesman. The old line about academic politics would seem to apply to regular politics, too: “The thing that makes it so vicious is that there’s so little at stake.”

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