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Before rain washed the sidewalk outside Au Bon Pain this week, an artist covered the bricks with a chalk portrait of John Lennon. It was a throwback, perhaps, to the Au Bon Pain that Extension School Student Jordan R. Winer remembers...
...Twenty years ago, Harvard Square was really hip," Winer says. "Like, Bob Dylan spent a lot of time playing in all these folk-type cafes. Well now, no way. Now it's very posh, very fancy--Ann Taylor and so forth...
...Winer is a self-appointed member of the Square's cafe culture--a sort of underground society that frequents the crowded hangouts where hermits cuddle in the corner with Hume, where chess masters with unkempt beards wage war for a dollar, where Jimi Hendrix impersonators make the cappuccino quiver with their electric guitars...
Says Samuel Winer, a former SEC enforcement lawyer now in private practice in Washington: "You can get away with all kinds of discussions and not tell anyone." Winer would require companies to announce publicly whenever preliminary takeover negotiations begin. He would also mandate companies to release much more quickly such important data as earnings projections and year-end financial results...
...already spends $1.5 million a year on salaries, office expenses and training to provide software advice. Living Videotext in Mountain View, Calif., figures that the net cost of talking to a single user is between $30 and $40 an hour. "If I talk to them twice," says President David Winer, "I'm starting to pay them to use my product...