Omar, the guy who runs the copy shop around the corner from my house.

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And in November and December, the NFT is screening the films of Hollywood star James Stewart, including Harvey, It's a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner, The Philadelphia Story and Vertigo.

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With a pencil moustache and hennaed comb-over, the owner, David Wong, presides from a desk in the corner, eyes darting around the shop as his underlings measure, consult and jawbone with the customers.

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He then drove to John's Barber Shop around the corner and used a shotgun to kill two customers, D'Amico said, identifying them as Harry Montgomery, 68, and Michael Ransear, 57, a retired corrections officer.

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"We are not sheep, they can't lie to us again and again and expect us to be silent, " said Alireza, a 30-year-old bookseller whose shop was around the corner.

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The winner of my informal poll on where to get the best ice cream was nearly unanimously Juice Bar (12 Broad Street, 508-228-5799), a small corner shop in Nantucket town that deservedly has a line snaking out its door and around the corner during high season.

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He then drove around the corner to John's Barber Shop and used a shotgun to kill two customers, Harry Montgomery, 68, and Michael Ransear, 57, a retired correction officer.

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That created a stir in Sam's Barber Shop, tucked into a strip shopping center around the corner from City Hall.

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Soon, the Coal-to-Electricity Project, as it was called, opened a small radiator showroom in a storefront around the corner, on a block shared by a sex shop and a vender of funeral shrouds.

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