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...Mike Lerner is a man in a difficult position--he's working for the tenants, as a full-time staff member of RTH, but he's being paid by the landlord--Harvard, at least until money comes from the state for the housing project. It's Lerner's job to promote the housing, and, necessarily, the power plant. Lerner's not thrilled about the position he's in, and he'd like his project to be more selfsupporting. But to him Harvard is giving the residents about as good a deal as they can expect...
...Look," Lerner explains about RTH's decision to accept Harvard's offer, "if I wanted to have someone drive my car to New York City, and a guy says he is going down to New York and he would be willing to take my car but only by flat-bed trailer, I'll take it, because otherwise my car doesn't get to New York, at all." Lerner says, "Harvard doesn't give away ice in the winter," but the University has taken certain risks that it didn't have to take simply to make sure that the housing project...
...John Grady and John Murphy don't buy what Lerner, Fitzgerald or Harvard is saying. Grady lives on the other side of Huntington Ave., the non-RTH side. He represents the Residents United to Stop Harvard, the most vocal opposition to the power plant's construction and to Harvard expansion in Mission Hill. Murphy wants to stop the plant too, but for a different reason. He's Edison's man on the project, an employee assigned almost fulltime to figure out ways to beat the power plant...
...American in Paris. The famous musical made by Vincents Minelli in 1951, and winner of five Academy Awards. Gershwin music, Lerner screenplay, and performance by Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant and Nina Fochs. I find it a little overdone, but some people are into this sort of thing...
Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Gundersen was Lerner's fifth wife...