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...icky beau Dr. Ted (Charles Rocket) hasn't made love -- to her, anyway -- in two weeks! "At the rate we're having sex," she pouts becomingly, "we may as well be married already." She has discovered Ted in a compromising costume with another woman and responded by trashing their condo: microwaving his football, toasting his funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer in my pool." Well, a UFO actually, with three horny, color-coordinated aliens (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans) itching to spend...
Gardner says he arranged for the purchase at an inflated price of a vacation condominium that Paisley owned in Sun Valley, Idaho. Prosecutors say the payment -- about $149,000 for a condo later sold for $100,000 -- constituted a bribe. The money came from a secret $5 million fund that Gardner set up with Unisys money and devoted to bribery and illegal campaign contributions, as well as his personal use. He allegedly replenished the fund by charging the military for consulting work that was never performed -- which would mean that the Pentagon unknowingly supplied the money to corrupt...
When we lose affordable apartments, we lose them forever, because government funding for low-cost units has not been renewed, and private developers have been vigorously fighting linkage plans. More and more condo developments and very few apartment buildings have been constructed in recent years...
Cambridge stands to lose in all ways from Proposition 1-2-3. As we lose affordable housing, we lose residents and the businesses, restaurants and shops which they patronize. So removal from rent control through condo conversion, whether from within (by current tenants) or without (by new tenants or by landlords) has far reaching economic and social results. The entire neighborhood fabric of Cambridge would change...
...proponents of Proposition 1-2-3 fool you. It is not about homeownership, although phrasing it that way is a clever ploy. Proposition 1-2-3 is a well-funded effort aimed at the erosion of rent-control. Its sponsors are only concerned with the profits that condo sales and resales could generate...