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Even by the standards of genius, Vladimir Nabokov's work habits were odd. He wrote much of Lolita in the backseat of the family car, a black 1946 Oldsmobile. (He said it was the only spot in America where he wasn't plagued by noise and drafts.) He didn't use regular paper. Instead he wrote in pencil on index cards, which his wife Vera later typed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piecing Together Nabokov's Last Novel | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Black Friday in Harvard Square was more...

Author: By Ike Greenstein and NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Retailers Experience Low-Key Black Friday in Square | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...trends in Cambridge aren’t surprising in light of depressed spending figures all across the country. According to a National Retail Federation survey, per-person spending on Black Friday weekend dropped from...

Author: By Ike Greenstein and NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Retailers Experience Low-Key Black Friday in Square | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Though Black Friday in Harvard Square lacked the typical 5 a.m. rush of shoppers searching for dramatically slashed price tags, dispersed sales for smaller items did draw some bargain hunters to local storefronts...

Author: By Ike Greenstein and NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Retailers Experience Low-Key Black Friday in Square | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...Black Friday itself doesn’t bring anything extra for us,” said Mark R. Faxex, a staffer at the Tannery, who added that Saturday was substantially busier than Friday...

Author: By Ike Greenstein and NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Retailers Experience Low-Key Black Friday in Square | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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