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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other large retailer in the area is the Brighton location of the national chain, CompUSA. About a $10 cab ride across the river, CompUSA is not the best place to shop...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advice for Cambridge Computer Shoppers | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...They're always eager to show off the flashy cases and graphics of their systems but usually neglect to tell you about the machine's limitation unless you ask pointed questions. Given Comp-USA's distance and poor selection, you can do better staying on this side of the river...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Advice for Cambridge Computer Shoppers | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...after your three month summer-by-the-river, you've changed your tune. You weren't the only student in the Square for the summer, and you couldn't all have been crazy to be here. And you've discovered that Harvard Square is truly a different place during the summer from what you experience from September to May. Don't get me wrong-it's no resort town-but the atmosphere is more laid back, the stress is (for the most part) gone, and you've come to see your college town in a whole new light. You even...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Wishing You Were Here This Summer | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...Yard became your park of choice, where you ate your lunch when you didn't have time to walk down by the river. University Hall, Hollis Hall, Mass. Hall, these became your "sightseeing spots." You could appreciate their architectural design and historic past when you didn't need to look forward to attending class or meeting the books on your desk. Instead of grumbling at the tourists who got in your way, you had a little more time to stop and take pictures for them and tell them where to find a good ice cream cone after a long...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Wishing You Were Here This Summer | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...city has many facets and is many things to many people. In your case, it has become many things to just one person. When you lay on your raft at the beach, with a lemonade within arm's reach, you sort of missed your lazy lunch hours by the river, hours when you finally felt you owned a part of Cambridge, when you realized that the city had become not only where you went to school but where you truly lived...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Wishing You Were Here This Summer | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

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