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...Landlord Ralph Hoagland has cancelled the lease after deciding that the damage from an electrical fire last spring was too substantial to repair...
...suit asks that the landlord make the repairs or allow Cate Enterprises to do them and then deduct the repair costs from the rent, according to an article published in the Boston Business Journal yesterday...
...chaos. A large agricultural concern takes over the surrounding acreage for a while, introducing prefabricated buildings and modern equipment, and then fails; one of the workers hired for this enterprise murders his wife for her infidelity. A London radio personality and book reviewer, distantly related to Naipaul's reclusive landlord, commits suicide. The gardener, whose comings and goings helped the writer regulate his solitary days, is abruptly fired. The man who manages the manor dies suddenly of a stroke. Elms in the valley die out; beech trees near Naipaul's cottage must be cut down; two huge aspens are torn...
Naipaul catches two fleeting glimpses of his landlord, but makes no attempt to meet him. The tenant is content with accidental information, the secondhand knowledge that he lives in the immediate vicinity and under the aegis of a bizarre depressive. The owner, rendered "more mysterious" by random images, takes his place in the writer's imaginative life, an intriguing possibility: "We were -- or had started -- at opposite ends of wealth, privilege, and in the hearts of different cultures...
Harvard has destroyed over 70 homes in the immediate area in the last 40 years. Now Cambridge's largest landlord is at last taking some of the responsibility for the housing problem that plagues the community it occupies...