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Consider a student leaving the Yard at Widener Gate. He must wade through a sea of slush on each side of Mass. Ave. Having reached the side-walk, he heads for the river. Part way down Plympton St., he finds himself in a canyon four feet deep. The snow has not been shoveled or plowed; he has to walk on a tiny strip of packed snow and slush. The sidewalk is nowhere to be seen. Two people can't pass unless one scales the snowbank and perches on a parking meter...
...reality, our ordinariness, aren't we?" observes Neil Morgan, a columnist for < the San Diego Union-Tribune. "The uniqueness we assumed we had has come unraveled. We are so much more like the rest of the country, and we have problems. I mean, what the hell, they have snow and ice, and we have earthquakes. No, there's no redeeming uniqueness anymore...
...more and more often, though, it might mean that something bigger is going on. Climatologists once thought the world eased into ice ages, with average temperatures in parts of the Northern Hemisphere falling 15 degrees over hundreds or thousands of years. During long, frigid winters and short, cool summers, snow piled up much faster than it could melt, and mile-thick sheets of ice gradually covered much of the planet's land surface. After 100,000 years or so, scientists believed, the glaciers made a dignified retreat, stayed put for about 10,000 years and then began to grow again...
Charred debris stained the snow in the courtyard of Lowell House yesterday after a fire broke out there early yesterday morning...
...when the snow is at its deepest, the Cambridge Slurpy at its darkest, and our socks at their wettest, we can take heart in at least one thing. Spring will be here soon--the time that dries men's souls. And their socks...