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...goal, a slight increase over last year’s figures, according to store merchandiser Michael Graney. Smaller boutiques opted for a creative approach to entice customers. Concepts, a sneaker boutique, began selling a shoe exclusive to its store, drawing a large crowd when doors opened Friday morning, said Tarek Hassan, the owner of Concepts and nearby Tannery boutiques. “You have to go outside the box to make sales in an economy like this,” said Hassan, who said his stores have posted single digit growth in the past month. At the Tannery bold...
...lost behind the movie’s commentary on illegal immigration. When Vale (Richard Jenkins, “Six Feet Under”) reluctantly travels to a conference in New York City, he enters the apartment he owns (but rarely visits) to find two strangers living there. Illegal immigrants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman, “24”) and his girlfriend Zainab (Danai Gurira) discover that they’ve been renting the place from a scam artist. They agree to leave, but Vale, feeling sympathetic, invites them to stay. The interactions between Vale and his guests possess both...
...unlikely circumstances. “The Visitor” charts the story of Walter Vale, a professor at Connecticut College, who is dissatisfied with his work and his life. One weekend he discovers that his neglected apartment in New York City has been taken over by two illegal immigrants: Tarek, a Syrian musician, and his Senegalese wife Zainab. After an initially awkward meeting, Vale warms to the couple and tries to help Tarek when he gets into trouble with immigration officials and ends up in a detention center. “I started visiting detention centers and was much inspired...
...expanded to two stores in Harvard Square and one in Boston. “The expansion has been highly successful for the Tannery because it allowed us to include more higher-end clothing in addition to our original concept of casual outdoor comfort,” Tannery co-owner Tarek Hassan said...
...fellow Shi'ites who had been rampaging through the district. "I think they shot him because they thought he was a Sunni," says Mustafa Jaroushi, 21. But the Shi'ites of the nearby district of Shiyah blame Hariri's Sunni supporters for Mahmoud's death, saying residents of Tarek Jdeide threw stones and fired shots at them as they passed the neighborhood on their way home from...