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Harvard University Stores (HUS) Manager Michael L. O'Hara said yesterday he was notified in January of the decision to close HUS, which is a subsidiary of the Harvard Purchasing Department. A campus purchaser and distributor of copying machine supplies, paper products and lab supplies for 40 years, HUS last year was subject to a departmental review...
...interview yesterday, O'Hara would not comment further on his office's closure beyond giving the April target date. But in a January 17 memo issued to all offices, Purchasing Director William F. Valentine said the decision to close HUS was made for reasons of cost and efficiency...
According to O'Hara, HUS was established by the University about 40 years ago to supply the campus with paper and office products. O'Hara said that HUS is a "cost-recovery" organization, meaning that it does not generate profits, but functions simply to facilitate purchasing...
...Soviet tanks are parked near Prague's Old Town Square, ready to disperse the young people gathered around the mournful statue of Jan Hus, the 15th century religious reformer who was burned at the stake as a heretic. Looking down on the tanks from his third-floor office on Parizska (Paris Street), Jiri Ruml tells me, "We failed. The next attempt at reform will have to come from the center, from Moscow...
Brian T. Ching, the owner of Ching, the owner of Ching Hus, said the incident has "lost the meaning of advertising" for him. He said he "might not advertise next year" because of the attitude of some administrators...