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Grafton will likely reopen in the fall in the location formerly occupied by the Bow and Arrow Pub, a prospect which we await with great anticipation. In the meantime, however, its closing serves as yet another reminder of the gentrification of Harvard Square, the replacement of beloved establishments with banks and PacSuns and impersonal Abercrombies. The trend is one we would not like to see continue...
...college prospect, Lentz will one day make a major league team very happy. For now, though, it is the Crimson who gets to ride Lentz's talents as far as they can go-perhaps all the way back to an Ivy League title...
...imitating Jordan on asphalt courts, coddled by agents and tempting offers when they are still just pimple-faced teens, and treated like hot commodities by the time they graduate high school. It's enough to give any kid a big head. While the drug policy has its flaws, the prospect of no policy seems like a recipe for disaster...
...free-trade area would also offer a chance for smaller guys to go international. WaveRider Communications, based in Toronto, a maker of wireless Web equipment, has just opened a South Florida office to prospect for new business in such places as rural Venezuela, where the government's peculiar radio-frequency allocations drive up costs fourfold for some components. "If we could get low-cost, 128K wireless connections into their schools, offices and homes, they'd go crazy for it," says Scott Winn, the firm's South America manager...
...Greenspan and the Fed are way behind the curve. The markets see a report like this as proof that they're right, and yet with the May 15 meeting a month away, they don't see the Fed stepping in between meetings to cut rates any further. Without the prospect of lower rates, bad news for Main Street is bad news for Wall Street...