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...Alas, therein lies Target's problem. Things are so bad, even cheap clothes are a luxury now. Why pull a new shirt off the store rack when you can snatch one out of the closet for free? Food, however, is not discretionary. Everyone has to eat, and more consumers want to dine at home to shave expenses. And there's a certain merchandising mammoth fulfilling that crucial grocer's role for consumers much better than Target. (See pictures of stores that are no more...
...cupcake vendor hits Harvard Square this spring. Sweet currently has a branch in Boston’s Back Bay and is slated to open in the Brattle Street storefront between Tealuxe and Curious George Books and Toys—a site formerly occupied by Cross, the high-end pen store. The store’s launch date has not been set, but owner Courtney M. Forrester said she hopes to be serving her fresh-baked daily goods by early May. Forrester first opened the Boston branch of Sweet in May 2008. “I kind...
...showed that the solvents had “significant” effects on the environment. In response, Harvard started to terminate its leases with various businesses in the building, most recently Three Aces Pizzeria. Negotiations have now begun to end the lease of Central Barber Shop, currently the only store that remains in the Bence complex. “Our clean-up activities can advance more quickly in a vacant building,” said Power. “When we initially started the studies we did not expect to find such widespread contamination. The nature of the remediation...
...conservative Muslim coastal village, and my neighbors were understandably distrustful of young foreigners. In an effort to adapt and fit in, I started to wear floor-length skirts and multiple shawls and to avoid speaking with my male students outside of class. One day, I passed by a store selling full-body hijabs and thought, “I really want one of those...
...graphic novel in 1988.”FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, REAL QUESTIONSThough it was written towards the end of the Cold War, “Watchmen” expresses timeless, fundamental concerns with the corruptive nature of power. Anthony F. Davis, owner of Harvard Square’s cornerstone comic store “Million Year Picnic,” says, “A lot of those writers of Moore’s generation were products of Thatcherism....When you think of ‘V for Vendetta’ or ‘Watchmen,’ they?...