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Cambridge and Boston spent Sunday digging themselves out from under the two feet of snow left by the blizzard that struck all of the Northeast Friday...
...number of factors that grew worse with every trip we took. The weekends would begin something like this: On Christmas day, the day before the great exodus, my mother could be found sitting next to the radio. waiting for the weather service to announce that a tremendous blizzard was heading for New England, creating hazardous traveling conditions. Invariably, such a storm would arise, and an endless discussion would ensue. By the end, mother would tell father that the whole idea was the stupidest thing she'd ever heard of; the next day, she would stand waving good-bye, tears brimming...
...existential despair and actual insanity. They are too sick to be tragic, but they are normal enough for us to recognize ourselves in them. The heroine of "The Snowstorm," for example, is a young woman named Claire who despises all personal attachments. When her car gets stuck in a blizzard, she chooses to walk home through the storm rather than appeal to anyone for help. Such isolation is intrinsically neither sick nor ugly. If Claire were a real person, we might guess that she had been hurt in love and was afraid of getting hurt again. If she were...
While such attention to detail enables top management to monitor every aspect of the business, it also creates a blizzard of paper work. Concedes Chairman Bill Harrah: "The danger is that you can become overorganized and start getting answers and information that you don't really need. It's something we fight all the time." For Harrah, a quiet ex-Californian who owns 84% of the company's stock, fussing over minutiae is a hard habit to break after 40 years. Recently he ordered a hotel restaurant billboard repainted after noticing that the rack-of-lamb dinner...
When not campaigning, Goodwin keeps busy cleaning up the damage done his trees by a freak blizzard last...