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...doing everything we can to make the final push," McLoughlin said. "It's been an absolutely amazing experience. We're like in the eye of the storm...
Around daybreak yesterday the storm reached Boston, with snow falling steadily for several hours before mixing with sleet, freezing rain and then rain as the day progressed...
Harvard's inhabitants took the storm in stride, even though the weather forced work crews into full swing and disrupted faculty commutes...
...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...
...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 were too weak to withstand the gale: They simply blew over and died. Others kept their footing, until their hoofs...