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...think that every tenant who gets one of those rent-control notices ought to go sit in on his lawn this Christmas and wish him a Merry Christmas," she added...
...People ought to go to [Weld's] house--send their increases, copies of their rent increases to him with a 'Merry Christmas' card," said Triantafillou...
...wait for the landlord to evict them...so many of them are going to begin planning to move. And I don't think it's very good public policy myself to, in a city where someone else's decision is going to determine that one-third of the people ought to move, that we just sort of let them move, without any assistance of a real type...
Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...
Being the writer for Lynch's books ought to give me an advantage in such matters, but I've shown a proven talent for ignoring his many winners and attaching my money to the small number of duds. This includes Sunbelt Nursery, down about 80%; 50-Off Stores, which is more than 50 off since I bought it; and D&N Financial and Supercuts, all of which are under water...