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None of these problems has the weight of the Yard's telephone blackout. Many lines in Canaday and Pennypacker did not operate at all for the first week of the move in. Scores of first-years couldn't even beg their neighbors for telephone time; they had to stroll out to the little NYNEX kiosk by Holworthy to have the privilege of phone service...
...Moscow's makeover is not just due to the crime explosion. A stroll through the center of the city reveals the transformation nearly everywhere. The city's seemingly ubiquitous statues of communist-era heroes, such as "Iron" Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the KGB, and Mikhail Kalinin, an early Bolshevik who once authorized the death penalty for children as young as 12, have been disdainfully torn down. Gone too are the metronomic boot clicks of the goose-stepping guards outside Lenin's tomb, who once immutably marked off the minutes and hours of the Soviet state. Remarked a Russian father...
...flea markets. At these outdoor bazaars, the bottom of the city's economic food chain -- mainly pensioners who brew "tea" with shredded carrots and can't remember the last time they bought a new scrap of clothing -- peddle their household goods to pay for tomorrow's potatoes. A short stroll from Moscow's Kiev train station, the sidewalks teem with faucets, shower fittings, cartons of milk, boxes of laundry powder, lamps, washbasins, doorknobs, frying pans, toothpaste, glue, string and old pairs of shoes...
...cartoon feature is an adventure of the spirit -- a guided tour through eruptive emotions. The Little Mermaid plunged briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...
...whether tennis fan or not, pay homage to the gods of Harvard's past this weekend, pencil in some sun time and stroll across the river to the tennis center...