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Certain jobs somehow lend themselves towards informal conversation. There's the hairdresser who blow-dries while discussing who's sleeping with whom, the bartender who consoles the heartbroken with a pint of Sammie, the J. Crew saleswoman who becomes your body-image consultants. Then, of course, there is the cabbie...
...this day and age where a single Pantene bottle can both shampoo and condition hair and a pint of Ben & Jerryis and the hottest Leonardo DiCaprio flick can be ordered on the same website, the combo idea continues to flourish. The latest innovation: dry cleaning and ifakebakingi can be done at a single store. Just a short walk beyond the frenzy of the Square lies Erin Cleaners, a friendly establishment that caters to the two seemingly disparate services of dry cleaning and tanning...
...Harlem Chess Center, which opened four months ago, it is common for grownups to get thrashed by pint-size chess prodigies. In the same tough neighborhood, the Dark Knights team at Mott Hall, a middle school for gifted students, last year won the national championship in the prestigious U.S. Chess Federation tournament. The victory was especially sweet because the Dark Knights didn't have the private chess tutors used by many of their opponents and couldn't afford to compete in as many practice tournaments. Their win "sent a message to the community about achievement," says team booster Welsh...
...case of the Thai government saying 'Enough is enough.'" After all, just three months ago Thailand was embarrassed by a hostage drama at the Burmese embassy, and ended up granting a group allied with God's Army safe passage after negotiating an end to the crisis. If the pint-sized terrorists plan to wreak havoc, Thailand wants to make sure they don't do it on the Thai side of the border...
Regardless, these two businesses are Square establishments. Thousands of Harvard students have commiserated over a pint at the Bow and grabbed a late-night scoop of ice cream or a donut at the Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin Robbins. Though Dunkin' Donuts is a chain establishment, this store has been a Square mainstay since 1971 and has been owned by the same family for the last 14 years. Countless Cambridge students have been greeted by the Latzanakises' warm smiles as they bought their daily cup of coffee. But more than the actual businesses themselves, the gradual decline of the Square's quirkiness...