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While you're at Copley Square, take a minute tovisit the tall buildings. The John Hancock Towerreflects the older buildings around it. Thetallest building in Boston, the Hancock Tower hasa sightseeing deck and museum on its top floor...
...When Tower Records and HMV opened giant outlets in Cambridge everyone worried that the grungy, groovy hole-in-the-wall record shops that give the Square a college town atmosphere would fold under pressure from the big, slick high-tech chains...
...Tower (95 Mt. Auburn) and HMV (in Brattle Square) are predictably huge, sleek and impersonal. Each offers a gargantuan selection of rock, classical, jazz and international music at decent prices, with popular albums regularly priced...
...easy, at times, to forget the world beyond Harvard Yard and the residential houses. Certainly, many students set aside the Real World during reading period and during exams. But Harvard University--like so many other colleges--is no ivory tower. The world thrusts itself on Harvard every day, Students and faculty feel it; they debate it in classes and in the dining halls each night. And occasionally--perhaps regularly during an election year--Harvard influences the outside world...
...meanwhile, between defending and fathering,Turow, who lives in the same house in which hewrote his two bestsellers, still commutes to workevery day. And on the morning train from Wilmetteto the Sears Tower, blueprints for another novelare in the making