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Sales in the music department have fallen, facing competition from monster retailers HMV and Tower Records have fallen. At the same time, the department that sells Harvard insignia merchandise--the Coop's cash cow--has flourished. Textbooks, which most students associate with the Coop, have never been a big money maker...
Murphy said a large part of the loss in sales was in the Coop's music department, which has faced stiff competition from Square newcomers HMV and Tower Records. Murphy said the Coop has begun a new advertising campaign to win more student business. and he added that he hoped to beat his music competition with lower prices...
Bush also claims in Looking Forward that he didn't know that Shultz and Weinberger "had serious doubts" about the Iran deal; otherwise, he says, he might have opposed it. But here is what Shultz told the Tower commission about the crucial January 1986 meeting at which he and Weinberger made their last stand against the operation: "I expressed myself as forcefully as I could . . . Everybody was well aware of my views." Bush, Reagan, William Casey and Poindexter "all had one opinion, and I had a different one," Shultz said...
Bush has said he thought arms were being sold to Iranian "moderates." But Amiram Nir, Israel's point man for the arms sales, told him in July 1986 that the U.S. and Israel were dealing with "the most radical elements" in Iran. Bush told the Tower commission that he had discussed counterterrorism in general terms with Nir but that there had been no talk about arms sales to Iran. The commission later published a memo on the Bush-Nir conversation, written by a Bush aide who was present, showing that the Israeli had indeed given Bush a detailed briefing...
...unusual for a modern construction excavation to yield an interesting archaeological relic or two, but this one was a treasure. The site was the southern tip of Manhattan, where workers last summer began preparing the foundation for a $276 million, 34-story federal office tower and pavilion. Twenty feet below the surface, the diggers uncovered a few human skeletons, then a few more -- and then more still. Archaeologists quickly found that this was no commonplace graveyard but one that early colonial maps called the "Negros Burial Ground," the interment site, from 1710 to 1790, of untold numbers of African slaves...