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There are few sights more beautiful than Harvard Yard at night in the middle of a snowstorm. The red brick buildings shine against the white snow, and the Yard is quiet except for the shouts of first-years in snowball fights. The beauty almost makes you forget the downside of winter weather...
...when the storm is over, the cold and darkness return, the aesthetics are limited, and we become House-bound with ample time to surf the Web and catch up on some political debates we might have happily been ignoring in favor of making a snow angel or two. When we're hunkered down inside, unable to enjoy the outdoors, we are left to contemplate some of the hot issues of the year in this January without a thaw--among them the ongoing religious exploits of George W. Bush, the future of abortion in America and the ongoing issue of education...
...percent continuum. But note, for what it is worth, that weather has always acted fierce and screwy from time to time. I look up Edmund Morris's description (in "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) of the winter of 1886-87, which settlers called the Winter of the Blue Snow. At the end of January - the Dakota Indians' "Moon of Cold-Exploding Trees" - there came banging down the worst storm in frontier history: "Children wandering out of doors froze to death within minutes... Women in isolated ranches went mad; men shot themselves and each other. Many cattle exposed on the prairie...
...freedom from bad weather: Bracing against the snow squalls, a U.S. Park Service worker clears a path in front of the FDR Memorial in Washington...
...addition to the patches of icy snow left over from last week's storm, some students poured water on the path where it curved around Matthews Hall...