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Ryan rolled up in car 293 at 6:15, and he looked to be living a version of the TV show "COPS." He was out on patrol, down and dirty, wearing a yellow raincoat and sipping from a large cup of coffee--just like a real...
...figured it was high time I started to think about my future. After all, it's only seven and a half months away. And what better place to find a good career could there be than the Harvard-Radcliffe Career Forum? So last Friday I threw on my raincoat and walked to Memorial Hall, where I was told I would find numerous prospective employers on parade. The place was abuzz with my classmates, who were busy trying to make good impressions on one dark-suited individual or another, getting names and telephone numbers, hoping to ease the transition from academia...
Clothes are a luxury. Nadezhda shares her only raincoat with Larisa. Alexander and Alexei, 16, have learned to go without anything new. The Vaktins have no telephone, so contact with friends is limited. The wooden cabinet and rickety set of armchairs in the living room, which also doubles as master bedroom, were bought 17 years ago. There will be no money to replace the furniture anytime soon. The family's only entertainment is an old Russian- manufactured TV on which Alexander watches the latest sports and Nadezhda her favorite soap opera...
...visual conundrums from a base of the most perfect bourgeois propriety, using a corner of his living room for a studio and never painting any naked woman but his wife Georgette, who, in return, never posed for any other artist. The common man in Magritte's paintings, with his raincoat and bowler, whether standing with an apple in front of his face or floating down in multitudes upon the unperturbed streets of Brussels, really is Magritte -- the poker-faced enchanter. No artist ever behaved less like...
...bring extensive rain gear. Umbrella raincoat, duck boots the whole works . It rains here. A lot. Sometimes an umbrella alone does very little to protect you from Boston's torrential downpours which are usually accompanied buy gusty winds. And the old brick side walks of Cambridge have a way of collecting rain water and ruining shoes. If you don't like getting wet, consider transfering...