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Both Kramer and Simon E. Shapiro, owner of Tags Ace Hardware, share concerns about the future of local businesses in Cambridge’s changing retail environment...
...casting directors took care in choosing representatives of different classes, they were less enlightened or prescient in matters of gender and race. Only four of the 14 kids were girls: Suzy and the three from a council estate (cursorily referred to in Seven Up! as "Jackie and her friends"). Simon is the only Anglo-African - his mother white, his father black. Apted and McDougall didn't think to find a child with Indian or Pakistani roots, although families of those nationalities had been streaming into Britain for 15 years. These days especially, Apted must regret the omission...
...Simon, one of the two boys from a charity home, works as a baggage handler near Heathrow Airport. He has wed twice. The first marriage, to Yvonne, produced five children; in the second, to Vianessa, he become a foster parent. Simon's and Paul's histories suggest that they weren't schooled in ambition. "I'm very laid back," he tells Apted. "As [my wife] always says, if I go any further back I'll fall over." Paul, the second charity case, went to Australia and worked as a laborer. He married Susan, a hairdresser, and had two kids...
...last outing, a win over Quinnipiac, Colgate caught fire, shooting 63 percent from the floor, up from its season average of 48 percent. The Raiders were led by junior Daniel Waddy, who netted a career-high 27 points, including two buckets from beyond the arc. Captain Jon Simon chipped in too, adding three treys as part of 19 points. Luckily for Harvard, its roster also includes a sharp-shooting captain who can be deadly from downtown. Goffredo has already racked up 17 threes on the young season, the most important of which came with 1:27 remaining in overtime against...
...pieced together. Here, gang violence and drugs are part of everyday life, and the government has been slow to provide new housing for families whose homes are in danger of collapsing in mudslides. Even so, posters and graffiti praising Chavez's "Bolivarian Revolution," named after South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, permeate the neighborhood...