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...Daddy talked and talked away. I didn’t begrudge him his negotiating if rice prices were as crummy as he said. But was this my grand re-entry? Is this how things would be from here on out—me, cowering in the corner like a nun? Sister Winnie of the Heartless and Frumpy?Then I realized what I could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that?...
...Currently, Barry’s Corner features only a small convenience shop, a gas station, a Dunkin Donuts, and a vacant former Citgo station owned by Harvard...
...University officials cheered last summer when they leased property only a few blocks away from the Corner to Finale Dessert Company, but residents have come to see the building—which contains no retail outlet and only houses the company’s central pastry kitchen—as an example of Harvard’s failure to deliver on promises to revitalize the neighborhood...
...Fifty years from now, [Barry’s Corner] will be just as important as Harvard Square is,” Peiser said. “It takes a long time for a project like that to happen and mature...
Florida's Republicans could use more constituents. Last November, Barack Obama, who won a surprising 57% of the state's Latino vote, became the first northern Democrat to win Florida in a presidential election in 64 years. Cuban-American leaders could use more help in their shrinking corner - especially after a new Florida International University (FIU) poll showed that, for the first time, a majority of Miami Cubans oppose continuing the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Havana. And so the more than 150,000 Venezuelans now living in South Florida - a third of whom have arrived since...