Word: livingness
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Many take the clean, hot water in their dorm room showers for granted. But for some, like those living in Ghana, South Africa or other African countries, clean water is more precious than anything else.
While it may seem to a typical by-stander that moving headquarters from a castle to a rock is kind of a downgrade, for writers from The Harvard Lampoon, this seems to have become part of a seasonal migration. Since the inception of “Saturday Night Live?...
Armed with a list of several dozen homes listed for foreclosure, Hartigan drives into Dorchester. Following his GPS, he passes a street lined on both sides with three-level houses. All of these, he says, are occupied by tenants, frequently with the landlord living on the first floor.
But a combination of living conditions, uncertainty, and the breakdown of the neighborhood conspires against his argument. One blue triple-decker Hartigan visits next used to house six families, but the woman who answers the door says that after she moves out, there will be only one left.
“You can imagine—the Bank of New York versus this poor black man in Dorchester earning $700 a month in Social Security,” he says. “He didn’t even know the property foreclosed, he’s not...