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...While more than 150,000 people live in squalid, sprawling camps around north Darfur's main town, shopkeepers are cashing in on the influx of aid workers with money to spend. A six-story shopping mall and office block is under construction next door to Babkir's store, and scores of tiny Korean taxis dodge donkey carts in El Fasher's sand-covered streets. Other shops sell jars of the powdered milk drink Ovaltine, and tubs of Camembert cheese bearing made-in-France labels. "There's high demand ever since the African Union and the aid agencies came here," says...
...Andy is a drug addict. His wife (Marisa Tomei) is cuckolding him with his own brother (Ethan Hawke). He is in trouble at work - well-founded suspicions of embezzlement - and he is also the masterless mind behind a plan to rob a suburban jewelry store - which just happens to be owned by his very own parents (Albert Finney and Rosemary Harris). Needless to say, this not exactly capering caper goes murderously awry. We quickly understand that nothing good is going to come out of this mess for Andy. He, of course, does not catch the drift toward disaster. Coolly smiling...
Alpha Omega Jewelers in Harvard Square became official sponsors of the Red Sox last year and this year began selling Sox-themed jewelry. Jordan A. Hislop, a store associate, said Sox merchandise has sold well as fans celebrate recent victories...
Farther down Mass. Ave., Billy Bartley, manager of the iconic Bartley’s Burger Cottage and a Red Sox fan for 47 years, also noted a slight increase in customers, but did not attribute better business to the Sox’s recent victories. Rather, Bartley believed his store attracts a certain kind of customer...
Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe has already received press for the “Chair Club” that gathers outside the main store window to watch games from the TV behind the glass. Although the public game-viewing is not officially sponsored by the store, employee Matthew B. Becker said allowing the crowd to watch games outside the store has generated excellent publicity...