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...Filene's Basement article...
...mysterious far-off lands this Spring Break in order to bond with strangers, test the limits of your tolerance, and find a core of inner strength. A short ride on the red line will bring you to that mecca of self-discovery known as Filene's Basement...
...Filene's Basement, for the uninitiated, is literally in the basement of a Filene's. Filled with endless racks of cloths (ties, socks, underwear, suits, scarves, hats, shoes, pants...the list never ends), the Basement is a refuge for clothes that were overstocked in Filene's proper. All clothes in the Basement are marked down progressively according to how long they've been downstairs, and when Armani vests start going for seventy-five percent off, things really get cooking...
...Filene's Basement in Boston is the mother of all Filene's Basement stores (although some argue that the younger Worcester branch is far superior.) Like Mother Nature, she will always remain central in the lives of humans because she fills a vital role in the delicate realm of human experience, as necessary to survival as water, as pleasing as the sun. Filene's Basement allows to revert to our most basic condition: that of the hunter-gather...
...situation is most dire in the basement of the Science Center at the Harvard Yard Mail Center, where mail is apparently imprisoned for weeks before it is lackadaisically distributed to 1,600 homesick, mail-starved first-years. How many more times can the University community look away as tears fall from the eyes of heartbroken first-years who were expecting grandma's cookies on time or the latest issue of Fetish Week before it hits the newsstands...