Word: forli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Small-scale capitalism still has its contradictions for this social worker-cum-entrepreneur and his Berkeley graduate son. His face animated, Sid says he feels "caught between what I want in life and what I need, and what I want to do for others. I'd like to be involved...
Sid is even more convinced that Grandma's is the right choice for him. "I've paid my dues for ten years," he says, "and I've been a hustler creating good things for poor people. Now I want to create good things for myself. Since I stopped being a...
ANOTHER DUDLEY BUS trundles past, probably late and probably packed, but to make good use of your two bits you take it to the end of the line. Few Harvard students ever will, since the Dudley stops smacks in the middle of Roxbury, but if they did they would find...
A slightly brown-skinned man with the hint of a pot belly, he lilts into a delicate Jamaican accent when he stops to talk, especially when favored (West Indian) customers come in. He came to the United States ten years ago working at a ski lodge as a cook ("I...
But he knew he could never make the kind of living he wanted for himself and Daphne working for someone else, "and we wanted to be our own boss," he says, so they borrowed enough to match their savings, bought their store, and taught themselves to keep the accounts. Leonard...