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...that’s not even why we found Pavic interesting. In addition to owning publications that pry into the Croation underworld, Pavic’s father is the proud proprietor of Playboy Croatia...
...picture tells a story. In Siem Reap, Cambodia's cultural capital, every mobile bookstall tells one too. Look on the sides of the carts that are wheeled about the streets bearing dog-eared novels and pirated Lonely Planets, and you'll find a hand-lettered potted biography of the proprietor. The vaguely [an error occurred while processing this directive] Dickensian narratives - weaving hardship with unvarnished hope - have an unvarying theme: the bookseller's struggle against the fates for a better life, and a hesitant supplication to purchase. Sometimes, there's a toddler asleep atop the cart, his or her head...
...iconic Grolier Poetry Book Shop (6 Plympton St.) has twice threatened to close, surviving only on donations which came after those dire announcements. Since the spring, it has been under new ownership—the proprietor is a Wellesley philosophy professor who promises more poetry readings featuring a wider variety of international poets. To make it float, the 79-year-old shop is being reorganized as a non-profit entity...
...photography shop Ferranti-Dege closed several months ago and, with it, one more bit of single-proprietor charm...
...population. In recent years, however, civic groups fed up with haphazard development petitioned the Supreme Court to enforce the law-and won. But the clean-up campaign could inconvenience customers, disrupt neighborhoods, and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. One of them is Vijay Sehgal, 47, proprietor of a wristwatch shop that is slated to be closed. "I don't know what I'm going to do," says Sehgal, "and it's not just me. I have eight staff members, all married. We're talking about 30 or 40 people who depend on this store. How will...