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...doubt. "If people are really stretching the law - doing outright harassment to remove tenants - that's not a good thing, but I don't think that most big institutional investors knowingly will target deals like that or knowingly target deals with partners where they think that might happen," says Andy McCulloch, senior residential analyst with Green Street Advisors, a property research shop...
...Brown claimed victory in his bid to become the first GOP Senator to represent Massachusetts in nearly four decades, he told his ecstatic supporters that they had sent a message that is likely to shake Democrats across the nation at the onset of the congressional midterm election season. "What happened here can happen all over America," Brown declared. The Democrats, he predicted, "will be challenged again and again across this country. When there's trouble in Massachusetts, there's trouble everywhere - and now they know...
...they try that, what do you think the fallout will be? I think they'll pay for it dearly in 2010. I think people will be outraged, regardless of party, if they let that happen. And right now, the majority party seems to be the party pushing it through. What's the hurry? I mean, really, if we are going to do something, let's do it right...
...hoping the people thinking of challenging [me] would give me a chance to do my job, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen." - Responding to announcements by three Democratic candidates, made before Brown had been sworn in as state senator, that they would run against him in the next election (The Boston Globe, March...
...thing about last week's deadly great-white shark attack, just south of Cape Town and about 15 minutes' drive from my house, is that everyone knows the sharks are there. We've been warned many times - not least by the annual shark attacks that happen up and down South Africa's lengthy coastline. We also know that the warm waters of False Bay, south of the city, are a favored breeding and feeding ground for great whites, particularly around Seal Island, a rock that sits in the middle of the bay and hosts a huge colony of Cape...