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Late last night, area meteorologists were still refining their forecasts for the Boston area. Minor shifts in the track of a strong low pressure system will decide whether the region receives a heavy dose of snow, as was predicted earlier, or of mostly freezing rain and sleet...
...winter storm warning was in effect last night. The National Weather Service predicted that the heaviest precipitation would fall after midnight. Any freezing rain and sleet is expected to turn back to snow late today, with light snow lingering into tomorrow morning...
...discovered the meaning of guyness. You're intrigued, I am sure. Lord knows I was. But before I tell you the secret, a little background would be helpful. It was Friday last, the first real day of winter, whether the calendar agreed or not. Outside, a cold combination of sleet and snow was falling with little pings to the ground. There was something beautiful about it all, but in another, more real sense, it was cold and wet--so I decided to stay inside. I wandered into the Mather House library to check out the magazines and there...
Because demonstrators triggered campus fire alarms, Harvard police sealed off the building. Up to 100 demonstrators gathered in support outside, despite a steady, cold sleet. Inside, the activists used loudspeakers to broadcast their demands until Harvard authorities cut off power to the building; supporters in nearby Matthews Hall rigged an extension-cord power line from a second-floor window...
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor thick of night could keep Schubert groupies from attending Sunday's performance of Die Schone Mullerin at the Museum of Fine Arts, despite the soggy deluge of the afternoon's Nor'easter. After wading through the flooded Fenway in standard duck boots/GoreTex combo's, soaked devotees crowded into the MFA's Remis Auditorium to hear Christopheren Nomura perform some of the German composer's most effusive and affecting ballads...