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...shop's "friendliness," as one older customer termed it, might be expected from a place that has been owned by the same people for so long. Years ago, the Zedros and Gomatos clan owned a whole string of stores in Harvard Square, including a diner, a newsstand, and a fruit and vegetable market. According to Ted Gomatos, Steven's uncle, "we used to supply vegetables for all those final clubs. The Fly, the Fox, you know? Our ties go way back...
...occurs in the townships. Images of men corralled in burning tires or beaten to death with grotesquely barbed polearms plaster our television screens with fair frequency. But the killing that took place so close to me was different. The thief did not strangle the woman because of politics or clan rivalry, which lead to so much of the violence in the country. His only motivation was greed. He was a burglar who saw an opportunity in a society whose standards of law and order continue steadily to deteriorate...
...spoke with members of the Wong clan who told him they remembered his grandfather from the days before...
...clan members told him of the cruel treatment Chinese villagers received during the Japanese invasion...
...operatic free-for-all shatters a Washington clan...