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When Harvard University police officers responded to the call, they entered the open drop off room and found a young man lying on a counter, wrapped in a blanket, using laundry bags as pillows, speaking on his own telephone that he had connected into an outlet...
March is the cruelest month. They say it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but we all know better. March tantalizes us with its sporadic warm days, only to smother our hopes for spring with a blanket of snow the next week...
...Death arrives like a pig in a blanket, like a carrot in a pot," says Hector, "salted, salted." Which might make you think that he's not taking the experience very seriously. He is not, however, without fear or selfpity. What makes his experience visible to the reader is that he does not demonstrate his lack of denial, as he says, by non-stop screaming. AIDS leaves him quite clearly a human being, as it does in fact to all of those who contract it, and because we have not known Hector previously, the story is new, we have...
Many other pranks are untractable, though. Mass mailings apologizing for housing lottery gaffes or blanket postering for fake events are nearly impossible to definitively identify as anyone's handiwork. Especially now, when sports teams are getting press for their activities behind computers and Xerox machines as opposed to simply on the court...
...League with other donations, the hospital runs a 10-week support program for patients drawn from its prenatal and drug-abuse wards. The women, many of them homeless, gather weekly for lectures. Each receives a healthy meal and two gifts, one for herself and another for her infant: a blanket, baby clothes, a car seat. "By the time the child is born," says Ivey, "they've assembled a small layette." Volunteer "godparents" help keep their proteges off drugs and attending their doctors' appointments...