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...things stood out right away. On the first bus from New York we saw two soldiers waiting in front of us, bound for Charlotte, in camouflage fatigues and jackets with their names and little American flags. It was a night bus, and I remember being feverishly watchful: a woman speaking into her phone—“operator”—in the dark, giant silver factories outside Baltimore, the whitewashed obelisk memorial as we coasted into empty Washington...
...back, been two years.” (“Five,” says the old man behind them.) Coming into the station, the one where they built cages and kept federal prisoners during Katrina, you can still see the wire outlines. That night, on Bourbon Street, women asking, “Looking for a good time?” The suited man outside one club: “Guys, I got one question...
...nighttime you pass cities briefly and only once in a while, because those rides are just getting from one place to another. No one talks on the night buses. As the buses got further south and west the drivers make their announcements in Spanish. “Cinco minutos aquí.” Sometimes we would pass a truck on a country road with the truck coming in our direction and the bus would vibrate a little with the shadow of impact...
When the Harvard women’s basketball team took on visiting Columbia last Friday night, junior forward Emma Markley made sure she was rejecting every shot that came...
...fitting that last night, Ryabkina followed in her mentor’s footsteps, becoming the first Crimson player to score four goals in a game since Vaillancourt did it last February at Cornell...