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Would-be shoppers peered through the windows of the Broadway Market yesterday, only to find the shelves barren and the lights extinguished in one of the Square’s few supermarkets...
Taking a moment to look around at his now-barren room, Marinelarena shrugged with a soldier’s composure. “Things change,” he said...
...Jian to question the career that has been set before him, the mentor he thought he knew and the world in which he lives. He's not the only one. While Jian sinks into depression, wondering whether he should bother sitting for his exams and doom himself to a barren life "as a clerk in a workshop", news of a student gathering in Beijing arrives through BBC radio broadcasts and Meimei's letters from the restive capital. Jian wants to stay out of it, but in the spring of 1989 that's impossible...
Here at Harvard, we love to complain about our barren dating-scene. The hopeless plight of the single, we hear again and again, is to suffer mortifying awkwardness or to remain forever alone. We are all familiar with the “is-this-a-date?” dinner at Border Café, and we can at least sympathize with those desperate folks in FM, caught mid-hookup with someone they probably did not know and wish they did not remember...
...meantime, I sit here in my room, ever-barren of cable, and wait for the VHS copy of last week’s Sopranos to arrive by FedEx from Providence where my roommate’s girlfriend kindly taped...