Word: escort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...November 1995 in this space, I wrote a scathing piece about the Harvard Shuttle Services. I cursed the powers-that-be for forcing me to walk to Currier House after waiting for shuttles that never came and hanging on the line for Escort Service operators who never picked up. Following the appearance of that column, General Manager of Tranport Services Peter Witt kindly called to discuss my concerns. Since then, thanks to Witt's Herculean efforts, only a handful of shuttles have plain not showed...
First, reform the Evening Shuttle Van Service (formerly known as the more sordid Escort Service). Monitor the courtesy of often impatient and rude operators. Call students back when you say you will call them back. Add more vans to the three currently running from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. so that students will not have to wait more than 15 minutes for a van to pick them up. And, most importantly, either shift operating hours to 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. to accommodate those studying or playing down by the River, or extent the service from...
With the suggestions from last night's forum, I hope that Transportation Services will make the shuttle system one that will please most students. Once the schedule is changed and the escort system beefed up, there will only be one more thing to do: Stop Harvard students from pushing their way onto the shuttle buses and trampling down anything in their paths. But that would be a truly Herculean task...
...powerful rendition of "America the Beautiful," and the verse of Arkansas poet Miller Williams. During the day that is set aside every four years to celebrate Democracy's peaceful transition of power, tensions that have plagued Washington momentarily disappeared. Speaker Gingrich led a delegation of GOP leaders in helping escort Clinton to the podium, then praised him good-naturedly in the President's traditional post-Inauguration visit to the Hill. Along the frigid parade route late in the afternoon, the mood of celebration was infectious. The crowd sang along as the Tennessee band marched by playing "It's a Grand...
...play, filmed by Jerry Zaks, is an old-fashioned weepie of noble mien with many bright moments and a superb cast. It's a tonic to see Keaton making sense of sanctity, DiCaprio refusing to sentimentalize a disturbed teenager. The impossible challenge goes to Streep; she's supposed to escort Lee on a forced march from belligerence into family harmony. "How can one sister be so good and the other so bad?" asks Aunt Ruth. The answer: careless writing. The movie is so unfair to Lee that one roots for her to stay stubborn and blinkered. But that...