Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just then the bell rang for the next train. I got orr the Red Line. I was headed to Harvard. Everyone in the car was reading The Globe's editorial page. Suddenly Danny 84 didn't seem like much of a threat any more...
Three years after beginning study of how Harvard could better train prospective doctors, Medical School faculty this spring will select the first group of students for an experimental program in medical education, set to start this fall...
None of the signs of improvement is immediately apparent in the newcomer's square foot of personal space: an area paved with debris and bounded on one side by doors that creep open each time the train gathers speed. One inch, two inches . . . what next? A young woman in a dressed-for-success suit, leg warmers and running shoes tries to offer some consolation: "But you have a partition to lean against." The connection between leaning against a partition and comfort is, however, unclear to the newcomer...
...that not enough of his usual players showed up tonight. Day after day, week after week, month after month, for 17 years, he has been playing pinochle with the same people. Are they friends, godfathers to one another's children, comforters in sorrow, celebrators in joy? "No, off the train we dislike each other intensely," he says...
...pinochle game reply smugly: "Listen, you gotta have a lot of humor and a tremendous amount of stoicism to survive the Long Island Rail Road." Each, hardier than thou, recounts a tale of endurance. "You should have been here yesterday. The people who change at Jamaica got on a train that already had passengers from two trains loaded onto it. Then they rode out to the middle of Queens Village and stopped for an hour. No explanation. No seats. No air." The man crouched on his briefcase one-ups: "You should have been here last week. Someone jumped in front...