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...also the traditional place to break up with your romantic attachment: "Beware of being Pamplona'd." Good coffee, small portions, but untypically good prices, a few snacks and pastries, Cafe Algiers (40 Brattle St.): An underrated little grotto next to the Brattle Theater, the Algiers is a slice of the Middle East with a warm and comfy atmosphere, strong coffee, and an array of eats from pastries to hummos and tabooli. With classical and sometimes ethnic music, one of the best coffeehouses in the Square. Passim (47 Palmer St.): More than a coffee shop, Passim is a gift store with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caffeine | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...competitors, the riches from even a tiny slice of A T & T's long-distance pie are substantial. A T & T's share of the market is 61%, with the new regional companies and non-Bell independents handling an additional 32%. MCI's revenues doubled annually between 1980 and 1983, going from $144 million to $1 billion. In that same period, profits mushroomed from $13 million to $171 million. Yet its share of the long-distance market is only 3.5%, 1.3 million residential customers and 300,000 business clients. Sprint has less than a 2% share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long-Distance Runners | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...heirarchy of authority that flows from the General Court to the Board of Regents to a local board of Trustees and constituencies as the faculty, students, and deans revelling in what they suppose to be their dimming power. She likens college authority to a pie, suggesting that her own slice as president is excruciatingly miniscule...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Checks and Balances | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

...though, these cautions seem not to apply to the vast majority of those who have participated. About 90 percent of the participants have said they were satisfied, and most participants are well-informed about Israeli life even before arriving. The slice of seems to be both realistic and reassuring to them. The personal and emotional benefits for the volunteers seem to far outstrip the costs. If you're an American who wants to help Israel, and you don't mind getting a little dirty, this just might be the best way yet to "pitch...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Pitching In | 5/9/1984 | See Source »

...Administration pushes ahead on an ABM system, not only will it waste a huge slice of the nation's wealth, but it will also break one of the most successful arms control agreements in history: the ABM section of the 1972 SALT I treaty. Recent evidence indicating that the Soviets have violated certain provisions of the treaty still gives no justification for a complete US abrogation. Arms control agreements are few and far between in our conflict-ridden world. They provide a major source of stability at a time when U.S. U.S.S.R. relations...

Author: By Per H. Jebsen, | Title: Space Cadet | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

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