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Erotic massages. Talk of a “Team Zebra.” Someone named “Flat Patty.” A striking explosion of banks. The closing of WordsWorth Books and impending shutdown of Brattle Theatre. Today, Harvard Square is quickly deteriorating into a den of vice, exotic livestock, and easy credit, a.k.a., New Haven. It’s long past time for some unserious reflection. Look, for example, to the charges brought against About Hair, a shady Arrow Street salon accused of providing prostitution services to students and other local residents (a sign in the front...
...number of realizations about the changing face of the Square. “People I talk to are worried about it becoming just another mall without a parking lot,” says Murphy, pointing to the loss of independent stores like Wordsworth Books. “There’s such a synergy to experiencing the Square, where I can have a burger at Bartley’s, shop at the Harvard Book Store, grab dessert at Toscanini’s, and catch a movie at the Brattle. We have to get together with local business and figure...
...Curious George Goes to WordsWorth, employees will serve up—for no extra charge—frothy butterbeer (presumably of a nonalcoholic, Hogsmeade vintage...
Harvard Square lost another independent bookstore last fall, when WordsWorth Books went bankrupt, citing competition from internet sales and chain bookstores. Its children’s division remains open...
...When he returned to Cornell, Wordsworth had suddenly lost its appeal. "I wanted to be involved," Zhu recalls. "I wanted to do something more useful than studying poetry written by a dead person." He took a leave from the doctorate program?never to return?shifted into law school and in 1995 joined Morgan Stanley as an investment banker. Since then, Zhu, 42, has made himself very, very useful to the Chinese economy. Morgan Stanley has raised $20 billion for Chinese companies, mainly through initial public offerings of stock, and Zhu has been involved in nearly all of them, including mobile...