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...also a verb, and the two are really close in meaning, just different grammatical meanings. So, like you cheer, a cheer. It may sound like I’m speaking to five-year olds, not the distinguished Harvard students that we all are. But moving away from the land of books to the land of sports, many of the students are acting like kids. Little kids with braids and lollipop, gumdrop dreams. You know what? Gumdrops don’t exist in football land. Only in Candy Land by Mattel.So when you hear some chants, cheers, “Cheng...
...been three weeks since Hurricane Ike blew ashore on Galveston Island bringing up to 20 feet of Gulf waters over the low-lying land, killing a still yet to be determined number of residents - several hundred remain missing - and inflicting billions of dollars in damage. The television satellite trucks and cable news stars are gone and the nation's collective eye has turned elsewhere. But thousands of area residents now live in a stench-filled world where the incongruous is normal and the dangerous real...
...slow descent into the Looking Glass land that hurricanes create begins just south of Houston along Interstate Highway 45, the road to Galveston Island. The first odd note is the number of blown out billboards and signs. The gold has gone from the Golden Arches, the toll-free phone number on the billboard for the class action law firm has been torn and tossed to the wind. Then the blue tarps begin to appear, stretched taut over the rooftops of strip malls and apartment buildings...
Crossing the bay, the wetlands are dotted with a sofa here, a plastic garbage can there and suddenly along the causeway, a flotilla of beached, battered boats appears, awkwardly stuck in the median, wedged against highway signs, land-bound, askew and sad. Capturing the wholesale destruction of a hurricane is difficult. We learned that with Hurricane Katrina where the images, no matter how awful, were insufficient measured against the reality. The most overpowering sensation is the smell, a stench that seems to imprint itself on the brain's memory bank, suddenly wafting back hours after you have left the scene...
Many of the 45,000 islanders who evacuated are coming home and the Daily News is offering free advertising as businesses reopen. The land-side bars on the seawall boulevard are open and the motels filled with construction crews. There is a fresh stack of new Spanish roof tiles atop the legendary Hotel Galvez and a few evening joggers have even returned to the seawall...