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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stupidity? I consider myself a semi-bright student who mastered the art of taking phone messages sometime in my early teens. Yet, as a housesitter, I must straddle the fine line between being honest (that the owners will not be home until August) and being discreet. After all, I'm not sure I want all of Boston proper to know that the owners are gone, and this young, inexperienced and often careless student is now a temporary resident...
...then, who am I to tell this woman that her son is hiding out for a month, and I can't give her the number. "I'm his mother," she demanded. I was saved from breaking Rule Number One only by her early realization that whatever she had to tell him could wait until August...
...most severe inconvenience, however, is that the owners have the gall to return. Despite the downfalls of housesitting, the attraction of a place in the suburbs is a drug, and I'm suffering from "Suburban Syndrome." Less of a problem than a sympton, I've been sucked into playing the role of a homeowner...
...come home after work, look through the mail, fix dinner, do some gardening, and before you know it, I'm falling asleep in front of "L.A. Law." I throw dinner parties. I was sent a form letter to join the PTA, and I read it with interest...
...right. Watt had received a $300,000 consulting fee from Siegel for making eight telephone calls and holding a 30- minute meeting with HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce to ease the way for the project. Siegel claims she does not recall talking with Jacobson in 1987. "You think I'm going to risk five, six or seven hundred thousand dollars talking to somebody on the Baltimore ((Evening)) Sun?" asks the developer today. Local housing officials, curious about Watt's involvement, were cheering Jacobson along. "I wanted her to find the facts," says Maryland community-development administration director Trudy McFall. "But they...