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They see sidewalks getting widened, bike paths popping up on Mass. Ave, and run down houses gettings spruced...
...younger brother, the years of waiting were filled with long school days that included, after a quick stop at home for dinner, a 20-minute bike ride to a cram school for extra tutoring. As they rode home in the dark through the empty countryside, the eerie sounds of frogs and crickets would sometimes scare the brothers into frenzied pedaling. Street stickball was a welcome interruption. And whenever he could, Da-i would sneak off to the neighborhood store to leaf through comic books...
...bicycle or in-line skates or tennis racquet or putter for the loved one in your life? Say goodbye to the $2.9 billion in Christmas sales racked up by sporting goods and bike shops. Shun the glittering bauble? Jewelry stores sold $4.5 billion worth of glitter last December--more than 23% of their total. No more liquor, candy and the like? With retail stores making anywhere from 25% to 40% of annual profits during the holidays, a wholesale abandonment of gift buying would turn our retail shops into empty shells...
...after day, students would never get anything done. People would wander down to the river with a book or two and become sidetracked socializing, or perhaps close their eyes in the warmth and sleep in the sun. On a sunny day it's hard to resist a jog, a bike ride or a nap down by the river, and consequently grades would plummet from the happy B+/ A- territory to the occasional B-, and (ahhhh), maybe even C's would appear on a few papers...
...Benjamin R. Kaplan '99, a Crimson editor, stuck with his issue of council-fund raising to the exclusion of all else. Albert S. Lee '98 emphasized the council's irrelevance to the majority of students, always a safe topic, and proposed ideas slightly off the beaten path, like a bike trail through the Yard. William P. Pyonteck Jr. '00, a brave first-year, touted himself as "a complete outsider" but was soon challenged by Eli W. Bolotin '98, who apparently wanted the title as well. (Bolotin also made the unfortunate mistake, at least in these quarters, of referring...