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Once they become part-time owners, people sometimes find that their dreams turn into nightmares. During a year, dozens of families can wind up occupying a unit, with some stealing the linen or perhaps wrecking the living-room sofa and thereby adding to upkeep costs. Says Barney Logan, a condo dweller in Honolulu, whose 47-unit building now includes about a dozen time-share apartments: "When we first came here, nothing was said about time sharing. Then the flood started. There was overuse of utilities, maintenance costs went up, and sometimes you couldn't even get an elevator, there...
...politics. "I'm not a purist in the sense that someone has to be a socialist to get my support--there aren't a whole lot of those officials around...I would be willing to work for any candidate I consider to be solidly progressive," he adds, citing Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass...
...team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati, Barney Miller, Mork & Mindy-had been erased from the prime-time schedule. Their ghosts would haunt reruns, but the message seemed clear: the era of the sophisticated sitcom was over. Thus it was fitting that the characters who had inhabited the Mary Tyler Moore show, first and best of breed, should reconvene after...
...Massachusetts 4th Congressional district includes Newton and Brookline, and stretches west to Wellesley and Fall River. But more than 300 Cambridge residents showed up Saturday night at a fundraiser for Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass), who is running to capture that seat...
...also came to show their support. Others, such as Scott Harshbarger, who is running for Middlesex County district attorney, said he came to express his solidarity with Frank, but also said that the event was "important for me personally as a candidate: many of the people who support Barney are my friends: it gives me an opportunity to talk to them...