Word: bookshops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shea, who has a degree in the history and science of astrology from the University of Massachusetts, teaches classes in astrology at the Seven Stars bookshop in Harvard Square and predicts clients' futures from their star charts...
...Some people really believe it determines your life," says a salesperson at Arsenic and Old Lace, a bookshop with a large stock of resources on the occult...
...Coop, the three-level bureaucratic hell that has a monopoly on textbooks, is a common source of student complaint. But only the top level (where the textbooks are shelved) is a disorganized mess. The other two floors have a selection comparable to a typical mall bookshop, with sizable collections of children's books and travel books. The hardcover collection takes up most of the first level, with a somewhat smaller selection of paperbacks upstairs. The poetry selection is excellent...
What Kevin calls "the failure of Harvard to provide a community of writers" compelled him to join the Dark Room. He met Thomas Ellis in the Grolier Bookshop, and Ellis and Ellis introduced Kevin to the group after reading some of Kevin's poetry. Kevin states that mission of the Dark Room is to create a community "to help young writers while honoring our living ancestors." In connection with the Dark Room, Kevin has repeatedly travelled to New York where he read at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and mosaic-Books. "I can leave Harvard...
...paring its payroll of 27,000 by 14% this year, it is also offering 10-year loans to laid-off workers who want to go into business. Since the program began last January, the TVA has reviewed 22 applications and approved three: a dry-cleaning operation, a Christian bookshop and a home- improvement store. Cathy and Malcolm Phillips, a married couple who both worked as nuclear technicians until they were laid off last month, took out a $49,000 loan to open the home center, using its inventory as collateral. Says Cathy: "It's a come-around-once opportunity...