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...Square but with crucial design improvements. The University must make a concerted effort to work with local businesses to construct a square that maintains its own unique personality. More appealing public spaces which are accessible to all should be built—Allston could then serve as a transportation hub between Cambridge and Boston. The University, given the expanse of the new design, will not only need more modern and frequent shuttles, but will also need to work with the MBTA to ensure that bus routes are maintained throughout the campus. Allston should become not simply an extension of Harvard...
...spring afternoon in downtown Moscow. Pushkin Square, a major hub of the Russian capital, is as vibrant as ever. Even those who hurry along on urgent errands steal a second to stop and enjoy the sunshine after weeks of rain and snow. But the atmosphere in one corner of the square is more menacing. A crowd of about 80 teenagers is chanting "Kill the U.S.A.!" and raising their arms in the Nazi salute. Zakhar, aged 15, with shaved head and camouflage shirt, is reluctant to talk to a journalist, but makes an exception to explain that the rally...
...promote the idea of the residential gateway and introducing devices that would take advantage of it. Sony makes a digital TV set-top box with a built-in cable modem for Cablevision. Last November Sony unveiled its new WEGA TV, which can download programs from a wireless network hub. In January, Moxi Digital, a start-up, unveiled the Moxi Media Center, a network-ready set-top box with a built-in personal video recorder (think TiVo), DVD player, MP3 jukebox and a receiver for cable or satellite TV. EchoStar is expected to be the first dealer to distribute it later...
Solon first noticed the trend toward private aviation in 1998, when congestion and delays at Europe's hub airports were angering "the passengers most important to [the commercial airlines'] revenues, first-class and full-fare economy flyers, the very people who are in a position to go elsewhere." Solon expects private charter services will continue to grab big chunks of the top-end commercial market, where margins are as comfortable as a first-class seat. Meanwhile, low-cost operators like easyJet and Ryanair will siphon off budget passengers. And that's a squeeze that could keep Europe's big airlines...
Then, just as the sweaty bowling shoes were beginning to feel comfortable and we were averaging more than five pins per frame, it was time to go back to the bustling but banal hub that is Harvard Square. That normally wise man, Anon., who said that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” had clearly never returned to the Yard after having gone to Alewife. We had set out to find an all-American evening but had choked somewhat on our soggy fries; yet now we felt more alive than our high-class Harvard nights...