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While the dinner meeting had no specific goal, it follows on the heels of the closing of the popular Rock Bottom bar and restaurant in June. Students made varied recommendations for the sort of business they would like to see replace the defunct brewery in its now-vacant space on Church Street, also managed by DiGiovanni’s firm...
DiGiovanni provided little indication of the sort of business he was considering for the vacant Church Street venue. He said space would probably contain some sort of restaurant, because the site retained its liquor license—a certification that costs several hundred thousand dollars in the Harvard Square area...
...worship as the Christians whose churches now dominate the ancient Moorish quarter of Albaicín, where the new mosque is located. But tolerance is a relatively new arrival. Twenty-two years ago, when a group of Granada's Muslim converts launched their project with the purchase of a vacant plot on the crest of the Albaicín hill, they ran into opposition. Even though the mosque site lay between a church and a convent of cloistered nuns, the local authorities suddenly designated the area as residential and scotched the plans. Legal battles ensued and tensions mounted, not just...
...with sagging faces (although they couldn’t have been more than 30 years old) and two elderly nuns whose arms were tattooed with crosses greeted me at the door. “Holy Christ,” I thought instinctively, partaking in their vacant stares, not quite realizing the irony of this thought amidst the devotional community of Dubrave...
It’s quite a sight, hundreds of people standing the same way with the same vacant expression, and it takes quite a game of Where’s Waldo to try and find three of your friends among the multitude of carbon copies...