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Brian McGrory

The powerful and the powerless

By Brian McGrory

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 16, 2012

In the eerie silence that hung over most of Back Bay for the better part of two days, you could all but hear the dollars evaporate into the dark sky. There are thousands of busboys, waiters, waitresses, bartenders, hairstylists, chambermaids, clothing store clerks, and manicurists who lost $50, a hundred, $500 dollars apiece, money they needed to pay their electric bills, buy groceries, and make their rent. That money’s not coming back - and their bills are not going away.

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