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Among the changes to the escort service were the addition of a dialy log and the replacement of the service's voice mail system with a telephone system answered by a real person...
...well, dispatchers now check to make sure drivers' watches are synchronized, provide callers with an approximate time for their wait and call students back when the escort arrives for the pick...
SBEVS was created this fall when the Escort Service, formerly run by the Harvard University Police Department, was merged with the shuttle services...
...with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf or Ford Escort said nothing whatsoever. Did we need talking cars? Apparently: a Jeep with a mountain bike or kayak rack bolted to the roof said, "I'm doing the Ironman next month." You have to drive something, and if your $299-a-month lease can get you a Ford Explorer...
...This means heavy smokers such as Armey had to slip out to the Rose Garden colonnade for a smoking break. If that were not indignity enough, Armey does not have a pass to roam around the West Wing. So whenever he ducked out of the meetings, he needed an escort to make sure the guards didn't shoot him on sight. At one point, Clinton's economic adviser, Gene Sperling, had Armey duty; another time a Secret Service agent warned the majority leader not to toss his cigarette butt into the Rose Garden. The dead leaves, the agent told...