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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...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: Mayor Miffed on Rent Control | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: Mayor Miffed on Rent Control | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: Mayor Miffed on Rent Control | 12/13/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hurricane Camille Blows Again | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Pain, Just Gain | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

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