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...apartment buildings, stores and offices--were managed in a low-key, almost offhand way. The University Housing Office nominally ran the buildings; in practice, responsibility for the structures was largely given over to private contractors like Hunneman and Co., which managed the properties. Harvard was anything but an aggresive landlord--"I remember seeing one house, right on the edge of the Square, renting for $200 a month. This was a house, this was 1978, this was Harvard Square," a former University employee says. "The residents wanted me to stay away; they didn't want any maintenance, nothing. They just wanted...
...things are clear--Harvard is the largest landlord in Cambridge. It owns a total of about 2500 commercial and residential properties, 900 of which fall under the domain of the Cambridge Rent Control Board. And HRE still loses money. "One of the main reasons HRE is not making money because of our accumulated losses," Robert Silverman, HRE vice-president, says, adding, "For years Harvard was charging tenants too little money year after year...
...last week on the dusty veranda of the hilltop plantation house. Dressed in their meager best, they stood respectfully and listened for more than an hour as the man in the short-sleeved guayabera shirt exhorted them to hard work and clean living. The scene looked familiar-an absentee landlord come to survey his patrimony, perhaps. In fact, the speaker was José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, a member of El Salvador's ruling junta and head of the country's far-reaching land-reform program. The campesinos represented 14 new cooperative farms in the area, encompassing...
...Elijah H. Millgram '84, who made a $130 downpayment on an undelivered tape deck, said last week he is "suspicious" because customers have been unable to locate Daum since the store closed. Daum's landlord. Robert Felt, also said he could not reach...
...Dickens that made our great-grandparents weep. A painting like Antigna's The Fire, 1850, looks stilted to us now, with its Raphaelesque pyramidal composition, its marmoreal smoothness, its "classicizing" of disaster. Yet to endow the sight of a wretched working family about to be burned for a landlord's greed with the scale and treatment of official history painting (it is about nine feet square) was in itself a political statement and, to its audience 130 years ago, a very moving...