Word: landlordism
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...Harvard Square resident, a fairly recent grad, and not quite an establishmentarian yet. Howeveh, I was a little put off at your treatment of my ex-landlord Richard Dow. "Tony" is not any rad-lib, even though his son is a genuine freak, but he is a pleasant curmudgeon. During the time we rented from him over the Billings and Stover store, we thought that he'd go mad with us hairy freaks running all over the building. But he remained as pleasant as he could, and when a broken pipe in the wall doused our office, he gave...
...landlord's attorney Allen Ponn yesterday promised the plaintiffs they would receive the amount by Friday, March 5. The plaintiffs are Northeastern University and Boston University students...
...group of six Boston students won a court battle against a Brookline landlord in a closed session of Boston Small Claims Court yesterday afternoon...
...Emily Brontë herself. The latest remake seems to echo back to 1939. The comparison is seldom flattering. In the earlier film Laurence Olivier constructed the role of Heathcliff like a man building a castle. Timothy Dalton, who played the foppish Prince Rupert in Cromwell, now seems less landlord than tenant. He self-consciously melts and struts, breathing hard to signify passion, curling his lip to show contempt...
...even more pocketbook-oriented decision was recently issued by the Oregon Court of Appeals, which upheld a $200 award to a young black woman, Beverly Williams, for the "humiliation, frustration, anxiety and nervousness" she suffered when she was barred from renting an apartment. The landlord was ordered both to quit discriminating and to pay the $200 in damages. In a similar New Jersey case last year, a rejected black tenant was awarded $500 for humiliation. If such awards continue, landlords may conclude that desegregation is cheaper than discrimination...