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...yards away, a teenager carrying an AK-47 rifle was firing at someone in a nearby street. There were some other gunmen taking positions at what appeared to be some sort of government building. The street was filled with the smell of cordite...
...story complained that often the focus of media coverage was not the plight of campus workers, but instead the thought of Harvard students skipping classes and generally defying the Ivy Leaguer stereotype. Elfenbein ruefully accounts her experiences with one journalist, who exclaimed “Wow! It must really smell in there!” as being representative of a typically superficial attitude lacking in substansive analysis of the issues at stake...
...column, thinking of how dull the Harvard campus has been recently, I was interrupted by the piercing sound of my fire alarm. Cursing the now-routine recent barrage of fire drills, I grabbed my coat and rushed downstairs into the courtyard. Only this time, to my delight, the distinct smell of acrid smoke greeted my nostrils upon exiting the building...
Hundreds of students from Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop Houses gathered outside the police line on the MAC quad and watched firefighters and police officers file in and out of the building. The smell of smoke lingered throughout the area...
...strange thing about living in a city where you can ride a crowded train and smell someone’s breakfast without knowing their name is that you begin to befriend the physical landscape around you. Larger-than-life structures become identifiable things, old friends to greet on visits home, urban landmarks as well as private milestones. The anonymity of people makes the familiarity of buildings more deeply felt: in a city of strangers, they are a set of steady and common companions...