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...founded when a student and Harvard officials agreed that the College needed some organization to provide students with a "structured outlet" for student-run businesses. The student, Gregory B. Stone '58, had been selling beer mugs out of his dorm room...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Business Training Ground or Just Another Job? | 2/10/1988 | See Source »

...Alps. They named their store Carrefour, the French word for crossroads, and it was an instant success. Their prices were so low that shoppers expected them to go out of business, a rumor they gleefully perpetuated by keeping their front windows coated with whitewash. Carrefour launched dozens of outlets, as did copycats. Today France has more than 600 hypermarkets that together account for some 14% of the < country's retail trade. Carrefour, which now operates hypermarkets in Spain, Brazil and Argentina, plans to open its first U.S. outlet this week, in suburban Philadelphia. Among the store's innovations: a rubbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come Malls Without Walls | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Between sets, in the upstairs hallway that serves as a dressing room, everyone is casual. Why do they do it? The answers, in decreasing order of peer acceptability, are: for the money, for the laughs, as a creative outlet, to gain stage presence and stretch their personalities, or (and here, anyone within earshot rolls his eyes) to break into the entertainment big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Wisconsin: Lip Sync Live, Onstage Tonight | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Acting in the revue serves as an outlet for pent-up emotions, says Kara M. Walsh, who spent two years with the Harvard Square cast. "I used to live in a very small town, and I really hated it because you couldn't be what you wanted to be without people saying something," she says. "You went to Rocky, and the people there didn't say anything...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...forming an "alternative, non-elitist" theater company, Undergraduate Group Histrionics--or UGH. Prascak, Joseph Giani '89, director ofJesus Christ SuperstarandComedy of Errors,and others in the group say they will fill out the group during the next Common Casting, and that UGH will try to provide an outlet for directors and actors who want to work on "off-the-wall things," projects "that don't get put up in the houses." Sounds like what the Ex should...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Ex Marks the Spot | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

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