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...Alice Knox '19 probably swears by the Harvard Cooperative Society. At 84, she is the oldest employee of what is more commonly referred to by patrons as the "Coop," the oldest and probably the most respected college retail cooperative in the country. The Coop celebrated its 100th anniversary last spring, and Knox has worked in its book department for more than half its existence. A warm, down-to-earth woman, she bubbles with enthusiasm, fond memories, and evident pride when discussing the Harvard Square institution that is only 16 years her senior. "I don't know anybody who works harder...
...Coop is a family no longer. The whir of modernization has transformed the store in ways Knox scarcely could have imagined when she entered the operation in 1925--and, what's more, in ways that would have appeared utterly alien to the cooperative's motley founders some 50 years earlier. It has grown from "a shelf or two in what was chiefly a fruit store" (as one historian puts it) to a multi-million dollar diversified retail business with six branches around the Boston area. Throughout the school year and summer, students, alumni and faculty of Harvard...
This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...
...John Mclntyre, the titular head (Moderator) of the Church of Scotland-the first time that a Pope had met Scotland's leading Protestant on Scottish soil. The meeting occurred in the shadow of the stern gaze of a statue of 16th century Calvinist Reformer John Knox, who once said, "The venom and malice of Satan reigneth in all Papists." Mclntyre seemed unintimidated by the setting: "If you are concerned at all for the unity of the church in Scotland, where we have a very bad record," he said, "it is a very significant event." The Pope's visit...
...sinking colón and thereby impress the IMF staff negotiating in San José. The cost: $45 million. As soon as the IMF team left town, the colón dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like a junkie raiding Grandma's silver cabinet for one more fix." Today Costa Rica has no foreign exchange left...