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...economic downturn has not been a problem. “We’ve had a really warm welcome from the Boston community and a really good business level,” she said. Cross—the original occupant of the space that the new cupcake shop will fill—has decided to focus its enterprise on its mall locations. “[Cross] never really worked in that location,” said Jillson. Andre N. Davies ’11, a self-proclaimed cupcake connoisseur, has already scoped out Sweet’s competition...
...almost 90 years, Central Barber Shop has been located at 1611 Massachusetts Avenue—commonly referred to as The Bence Building—in Agassiz, but now Harvard is forcing it to relocate, citing environmental concerns. In 2007, Harvard discovered that there were dry-cleaning solvents emanating from Crimson Cleaners, another business in the Bence complex, according to Mary Power, senior director of community communications at Harvard. The results of extensive studies by the University showed that the solvents had “significant” effects on the environment. In response, Harvard started to terminate its leases with...
...never benefited from the territory's so-called peace dividend and are the hardest hit by the vertiginous decline of the economy. Such places used to be no-go areas for the police and were effectively controlled by paramilitaries. Sinead Kelly, 18, waits for her partner outside a betting shop on Falls Road, a working-class republican stronghold. "It's frightening around here at night," she says. "I can't even walk down the street with my baby; I'm that scared, in case I meet people with drugs." Her startling conclusion: "I would rather have lived in those days...
...situation was reminiscent of student protests in the 1990s, which had a tendency to devolve into tear-gas-shrouded street battles between police and looters looking to take advantage of a demonstration to smash shop windows and nab a few things. This time, however, the protest's leaders tried to defuse the situation and urged their followers to head back to the University of Nairobi campus for a prayer session. "The direction they are now taking is not the direction we wanted," said Walter Otieno, 28, a Strathmore University student and one of the protest's leaders, who had gotten...
...mechanism into the lifelong-employment system." The key to success is to rely less on exports and more on domestic demand - a prescription that, a DPJ policy document says tartly, "has been on the table for the past 20 years." But Ozawa recognizes that to encourage the Japanese to shop rather than stash their cash in safety-deposit boxes, something more than exhortation is needed. "We have to give a sense of security to the population," he says. That implies, given the demographic challenge, real reform of health care and retirement benefits. Even the younger generation, Ozawa says, are "worried...