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...error, an article on page 3 of Friday's newspaper was cut off. In the final paragraph of the article, which was about a rent control trial in Boston, Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh, an opponent of rent control, explained why he thinks rent control is a political payoff. "Because I offered to subsidize your college tuition," he told a Crimson reporter, "you'd vote...
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...effort may bring an immediate payoff for the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo, where about 10,000 people -- including 1,500 children -- have been killed since Bosnian Serbs launched the war in April 1992. If the guns pull back and the U.N.-brokered cease-fire holds, Sarajevans can draw a confident breath and move around their city in the knowledge that they will not be shot by snipers or blown to pieces. That achievement alone is worth considerable effort, and it could lend impetus to similar settlements for other ostensibly "safe areas" where Muslims are surrounded by both Serbs...
That's a racket. Now, instead of a five-and-ten, picture an abortion clinic. And while you're at it, how about a miraculous conversion: turn the hoodlums into militant Christians, whose only payoff is in heaven. They still threaten violence, but not for money. That's a racket...