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...faculty members as a means of displacing local residents in favor of professors. University officials have admitted that their property sales to Harvard faculty members are not designed solely to help poor professors find housing in this tight housing market; they're also out to make a fast buck on buildings sometimes valued at $400,000. In the process, they're displacing longterm tenants of these buildings who were once protected under rent control...
...faculty members as a means of displacing local residents in favor of professors. University officials have admitted that their property sales to Harvard faculty members are not designed solely to help poor professors find housing in this tight housing market; they're also out to make a fast buck on buildings sometimes valued at $400,000. In the process, they're displacing longterm tenants of these buildings who were once protected under rent control...
...utilizes a gift for gab, a talent for making "the old feel young and the poor feel rich," as one friend puts it. Bunting favors disguises, what he calls "hidebehinds," becoming everything from a fish peddler to a buck dancer in order to confuse or disarm his prey. When these tricks fail, he calls upon oratorical ammunition. Confronted with some violators intent on ambushing him, he announces: "It is my duty to inform you that I am slick with a gun. I don't want to meet you in the Great Beyond and have you telling me that I didn...
That was back in 1936, when the shirts sold for about a buck. Now the same % number might go for several hundred times the original price. Now high-fashion designers from Italy, Japan and France are adapting and transmuting the fit, dash and splashy spirit of Hawaiian shirts into a bedazzling array of prints. Now up-to-the-minute fashion emporiums like Barneys in New York City import racks full of new Hawaiians, while Bill Gold, co-owner of a vintage clothing store called Repeat Performance in Los Angeles, will go on buying trips to the Midwest to ferret...
...Osage block association arranged a meeting with Move members on Mother's Day last May. "We were trying to give and take, and there wasn't any give and take," recalls Oris ("Buck") Thomas, 42, who lived not far from Move. "They said, 'If you do anything to hurt us, we're going to kill you.' " The cultists said their aim was to win freedom for the nine Move members imprisoned for murder after the slaying of a policeman in a 1978 confrontation. Said Thomas: "They said they'd been through the courts but . - . . that the only...