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...competitiveness in an increasingly competitive Harvard Square. Such bold decision-making is the only way the Coop rebate will once again rise to 10 percent--where it hovered for much of the past 30 years before starting its free-fall in 1988, when both the economy began to sour and competition in the Square began to intensify...
...Jefferson the politician had a more sour view: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper," he wrote to a friend in 1807. "Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put in that polluted vehicle." (With his attitudes towards the press, Jefferson is surpassed only by Nixon, who spoke eloquently for first amendments freedoms while using the FBI to spy on journalists he thought were dangerous...
...JOYOUS HOMECOMING FOR THIS SUMMER'S LITtle League World Champions turned sour even before the last shred of confetti hit the ground. Local sports columnists claimed that as many as half the players on the team from Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines were over the 12-year age limit (or 13 if the player's birthday is after Aug. 1). Little League officials in Manila stonewalled efforts to certify the players' ages, and most of the Philippine press and public seemed to view the accusations as an American plot...
...BROADWAY SHOW IN MANHATTAN CALLED THE NEWS in Revue is packing them in by turning today's political headlines into tonight's routines. For instance: the long-running Clinton-Gore road tour has gone sour since the Fab Foursome started getting on each other's nerves. Bill keeps playing that darned sax, and Hillary won't quit with the cookies. Tables are outfitted with ballot boxes, and every night the audience votes for President. At last count, Clinton had won 68 of 70 ballots...
...sound like sour grapes, but I think that's what has kept the Square different," Joe says. If franchises ever found their way into Harvard Square, he says, "it'd get to be a neon jungle...