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...building will replace the storefront of the Harvard Provision Company and Skewers, a Middle Eastern restaurant, which both closed this spring. According to Sidney Verba ’53, director of Harvard University Library, the new building will be used by the Office of Information Systems, which runs the online Hollis library catalogue, and the Weissman Preservation Center, which helps repair and maintain the holdings of the university libraries...
...source familiar with Gore's original TV proposal: "When it first came around, people were, like, 'How is this thing going to make money?' These are Democrats, but they're business people first." That's why Gore and his partner Joel Hyatt, who co-founded a nationwide chain of storefront legal clinics, have refined their proposal to be less ideological and more entertaining. It would not be a traditional news network, says a person familiar with their plan, but "something totally different in concept and format." Both Gore and Hyatt declined to be interviewed...
...spoken to him about the concept. "He can say, 'This isn't my deal.' But he's interested." Gore has been exploring and encouraging several types of possibilities in recent months, and consulting closely with Joel Hyatt, the founder of Hyatt Legal Services, a nationwide chain of low-cost, storefront legal clinics. (Hyatt ran for Senate from Ohio in 1994, unsuccessfully seeking the seat that was vacated by the retirement of his father-in-law, Howard Metzenbaum.) One entertainment industry source who met with Gore and Hyatt earlier this year said that, at that time, part of what they envisioned...
...Internet, which has illuminated the murky world of ticket pricing and has shifted power to the consumer and a cost advantage to technologically adept newcomers. The Internet has helped these carriers sharply cut distribution expenses and has also helped in advertising. "The Internet gives us a place in the storefront window," says Sean Menke, head of marketing for Frontier. "And for the price-sensitive customer, we'll benefit every time we go up against a major carrier...
...were directed against the Republican Guard. Judging from the look of the battlefields today, the bombing was largely surgical. In the open market in Mahmudiyah, five tanks were hit from the air while they were parked in alleyways so narrow that their gun turrets could not be turned. The storefront windows a few feet away were blown out, but otherwise the surrounding buildings are intact. In some cases, the Iraqis attempted to hide tanks and trucks from U.S. planes by parking them underneath freeway overpasses, and even though the vehicles were destroyed by laser-guided munitions that entered from...