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...claimed that Malamud’s novel was too boring and depressing. This summer, as I languished away in the Cambridge sun, something—a longing for the familiar, perhaps—told me to revisit Malamud and his tale of an old Jewish grocery store owner whose newfound, gentile assistant tries to help the Bober family while fighting his own, prominent internal demons. I instantly recalled why I enjoyed the novel so much the first time. On its surface, sure, it’s boring and depressing: Poverty, shattered dreams and the mundane happenings inside a floundering neighborhood...
...Lewis, both seminal events in the franchise’s decline over the past two decades. Boston fans still mourn the losses, as much for the Celtics’ subsequent 20-year slump as for the death of two greats. The line was as rife with historical recollection as newfound hope. Few franchises have the historical marquee of the Celtics, and Boston fans— perhaps more than any others—recall every basket and coaching change that have made the Celtics the power they once were and the farce they have been.Throughout my three hours in line...
...local residents. “I think it’s moved upscale a lot…it’s become a very yuppie kind of expensive place,” he says.Pebble Gifford, of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, also recognizes the Square’s newfound sophistication.“[Uniqueness] has always been the appeal of the Square,” says Gifford. “We’re losing sort of a funkiness.” Nevertheless, for Gifford the sanitization is a not an unwelcome change. “We were sort...
...Russia is changing so much now. Ten years ago, it was the era of mistresses, and now it's the era of wives. Women are looking not only for sexy clothes but also to show themselves as the owners of their world." That shift can be seen in the newfound taste for more conservative clothing from the likes of Chanel and Ralph Lauren. In her own wardrobe, Khromtchenko hoards avant-garde items from designers such as Martin Margiela and Balenciaga and classics from Dior...
...more of itself as it expands into Allston? For the benefit of both Harvard and Allston, perhaps internal voices will insist that Harvard build a relationship with the Allston community that will be regarded worldwide as the shining example of how to simultaneously enrich a prestigious university and its newfound neighbors...