Word: snow
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...Chinese imports, had garnered surprising bipartisan traction in Congress and could well have been passed by the upper chamber later this year. The China bashers certainly did not get anything close to what they were seeking, but the wind is now out of their sails. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow's statement that he welcomes the currency shift makes it likely that protectionist legislation will now lose support in Washington. Likewise in Europe, the anti-Chinese sentiment on trade policy should recede...
...winter in Brazil, I deduced, then it obviously meant that this was a heat wave and that the snow would hit at any time. I therefore grew my facial hair with more intensity, gearing up for what was definitely going to be an epic blizzard...
Alas, the blizzard has yet to come. Some natives have told me they have never seen snow. This I am still grappling with...
...honest, I am beginning to fear the snow will never come, and I miserably bask on the sands of Ipanema beach, mingling with the sparsely clad natives, my heart longing for those February mornings at Harvard when I stumble out of my room and step into a deliciously crusty puddle of slightly-polluted slush. Instead, I stand atop the Pão de Açucar, a prominence circled by Guanabara Bay, facing the city, and I see Rio soaking in its own mild winter (scoff!) sunset, the waves washing up against the city lights. I kneel on the ground...
...Harvard that SSP students are experiencing isn’t, in every way, the same as the one that assembles during move-in week each September. In the Yard, the trees always have leaves, and the ground is covered in grass—never snow, mud, or spray-on fluorescent green...