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...Cambridge resident stated that she called police to respond to 48 Norfolk St. at 10:40 a.m. She had gone to the address to see if her boyfriend was cheating on her. A landlord led her to the dwelling and she knocked on the door. Her boyfriend appeared with another woman. The complainant tried to enter the home but was blocked by her boyfriend...
Lucy Parsons is currently involved in a desperate struggle for its home. Like the evil East Village landlord who tries to evict Roger and Mimi in "Rent," Holmes Realty Trust wants to put the beloved bookstore on the street in order to build an expensive housing and office complex that will do nothing to benefit the people of Central Square. But Lucy Parsons, its volunteers (there is only one paid employee) and its fans have mobilized. Rallies! Protests! Antagonism! Strife! Ah, la boheme! Puccini would be proud...
According to Shoshana Weiner '98, Home Realty Trust, the landlord of Central Square Plaza, intends to knock down stores in the plaza to make way for a multi-level complex featuring luxury apartments, chain stores such as the GAP and a parking garage...
...That's how much you can trust them," Bekkensaid of his landlord...
Clearly you need not rely on a tradition that represents all that is objectionable and harmful about Harvard--a tradition whose condescension extends to doubting your ability to be a landlord and assuring you, in the tone of your most patronizing kindergarten teacher, that owning your own building would just be "no fun at all." Come on, girls, you're smarter than that. And best of luck with your club. JESSICA A. NORDELL...