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...weather in New England can get a bad rap. Yes, there was a hurricane a couple of years ago. Yes, temperatures can reach the high nineties. Yes it can get very, very humid--almost stifling. But most evenings and mornings, the weather is pleasant. A fan will cool off a bedroom, classroom or office. If the heat gets too oppressive, there is an easy antidote--water...
Neither of them expected the job to be as pleasant...
When 289 of us entered Radcliffe in 1942, the war had been on for nine months. Half of our class, including myself, were commuters. For those of us who lived in the dorms, the pleasant pre-war amenities soon became memories. By 1943, most of our Harvard classmates were in uniform. The WAVES moved into Briggs Hall and then later into Whitman. Radcliffe students were crowded into the rest of the dorms and outside houses. Progress across the Radcliffe and Harvard Yards meant dodging lines of marching women...
...There is only one road there and it is pleasant, in a way. The buildings are very comfortable, like a little hotel," he says...
Also, the city just announced a new initiative to make taxi riding more pleasant: drivers will be required to learn 50 courteous phrases that the authorities believe to be appropriate for dealing with passengers. What New Yorkers found entertaining in that piece of news was that these 50 phrases will be the only complete sentences of English some drivers know. We can now look forward to hearing a driver punctuate a stream of Haitian patois or Urdu or Russian with "It is my pleasure to place your bags in the trunk" or "May I help you into the building...