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Despite the construction of several non-gothic structures outside his window, many of which clash with the Yard's normal appearance, Jewett has managed to keep a rapport with the protesters. Throughout the spring's long protest season, there were no serious confrontations, at least none worth trying to discipline anybody...
...today. The business has merely moved to the streets. Teenage salesmen with rock hidden in their pockets--or sometimes their mouths--now loiter at corners and against fences. As buyers drive by slowly in cars, a quick exchange of cash for crack can take place through an open window...
...Mass appeal. Hill Holiday has grown from $20 million in billings ten years ago to $245 million today, partly by telling consumers why computers will change their lives. "The politicians will take credit for it; the businessmen will take credit for it, but"--and here he points out the window of his 39th-floor office across the Charles River toward Harvard and M.I.T. --"the real key to it all is the universities...
...summit started with a bang. During a series of welcoming ceremonies for the leaders (from the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada) at Akasaka Palace, five homemade missiles fired from crude tubes in an apartment window nearby sailed over their target and fell harmlessly to earth. The summiteers were hardly fazed. When asked if he was disturbed by the rockets, Reagan quipped, "No, they missed...
...Monday April 14, a bright, sunny day around noon, I looked out my office window from the eighth floor of Holyoke Center. To my horror, I saw a man beating a woman, down on the corner of Dunster and Winthrop Streets. As I watched him smack her repeatedly on the side of the head, and forcibly prevent her from running away, I dialed 911 for help. Between the time that I first saw this spectacle and finished telling the police where and what it was, I must have watched at least 30 people walk down Dunster Street--without stopping. There...