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This week's snowstorm shut-down of Harvard will not cause the academic calendar to be extended in the spring, and most instructors will probably make up missed classes by meeting extra times during the semester, University officials said yesterday...
More than 150 people braved a snowstorm to attend the hearing, requested last month by the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC...
...characters in Night-Side, Oates' latest collection of stories, lie on the boundary between existential despair and actual insanity. They are too sick to be tragic, but they are normal enough for us to recognize ourselves in them. The heroine of "The Snowstorm," for example, is a young woman named Claire who despises all personal attachments. When her car gets stuck in a blizzard, she chooses to walk home through the storm rather than appeal to anyone for help. Such isolation is intrinsically neither sick nor ugly. If Claire were a real person, we might guess that she had been...
...growers were hard pressed to gather in their crop?worth more than $50 million to them?before the fruit started spoiling and dropping to the ground. The weather and the Federal Government had, in the Northeastern farmers' view, conspired to make this a doubly difficult year. A snowstorm last spring destroyed blossoms. Heavy rains in September made picking nearly impossible and knocked an estimated 10% of the crop from the trees. At harvest time the growers had trouble getting crews of pickers into the orchards. Even though few Americans are willing to do the work, the U.S. Department of Labor...
...just going to pray that we won't get a big snowstorm this winter," George Teso, director of Traffic and Parking, said yesterday, adding that city police have only 40 per cent of the normal towing fleet available because of the city's decision to end its contract with Ellery...