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Wachsler says that, even for a homeless person who has successfully garnered a job, being able to rent an appartment—particularly in Cambridge’s bloated real estate market—is still a distant hope...
...offers a trio of summer movies with nary a beach, a bimbo or a superhero in sight. All three films--Buffalo Soldiers, The Magdalene Sisters and Dirty Pretty Things--fit snugly into what we'll call the Miramax genre. Take a fact-based scandal that made headlines in a distant country. Cram in enough subplots to fill three other dramas. Assemble a tony cast of actors just below star level. Then market the product as a searing indictment of...well, something pretty...
Bush & Co. clearly have fudged the truth about a number of things. The Administration's statements that the military occupation of Iraq would be short were wrong. American men and women are dying in a distant land, with no end to the carnage in sight. If the President and his staff deliberately misled the American public and Congress, they should suffer the consequences. BRANDON BITTNER Spring City...
...George W. Bush & co. clearly fudged the truth about the threat of Iraqi WMD. The Administration's statements that the occupation would be short are also wrong. American men and women are dying in a distant land, with no end to the carnage in sight. If the President and his staff deliberately misled the American public and Congress, they should suffer the consequences. Brandon Bittner Spring City...
...client Barbara Principe are. She's a 70-year-old mother of seven children who grew up on a chicken farm in New Jersey, barely aware that her grandfather Franz Wertheim was co-owner of a German retail legend. In 1951 a German lawyer named Arthur Lindgens, a distant relative by marriage of the Wertheim family, bought out Principe's father's and uncle's share for the equivalent of about $5,100 at the time. That enabled Lindgens to get majority control of Wertheim, and he promptly sold it to Hertie. "My father was told there was nothing left...