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Fluorescent pink signs postered around the Harvard Coop warned, “In the event of rain or excessive humidity during Commencement, the dye in the gowns may discolor your clothing. Please DO NOT wear your gowns over valuable garments...
...said that although she will not be wearing any clothing of particular value under her gown, she is “crossing her fingers” that rain doesn’t cloud her graduation...
...Given what you pay for a gown, it seems logical that the colors would not bleed,” he said. “I personally don’t have clothes that bleed, rain or no rain...
...once word came, the Germans were fatefully slow to respond. Hitler jealously controlled the armored regiments, and his aides were reluctant to wake him up before 9:30. Had the Luftwaffe been there to rain fire on the beaches, had the weather turned worse rather than better, had Rommel stayed on the scene or had Hitler sent his tanks, it is entirely conceivable that the whole landing force could have died on those beaches or been forced to turn back. As it was, at one point Lieut. General Omar Bradley, hearing of the carnage of Omaha Beach, said he feared...
...gourdes, but nearly 90% of the country has been deforested, and last week the consequences were measured in bodies. The floods that devastated Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and killed by some estimates 2,000, were made worse in Haiti by the lack of roots to soak up rain and hold back sliding soil. Mud rushed down denuded mountains and engulfed entire towns like Mapou, near the Dominican border, where rescue workers fear as many as 1,000 people may have drowned or been buried alive. In Jimani, residents...