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Renting one of these houses can be an intimate way to get to know the city, to see a side of it that can't be found on the noisy pool deck of a chain hotel. An expansive three-bedroom house designed by local architect William Cody in 1964 has a demure flat-roof-and-steel-beam structure that pays homage to the uncomplicated designs of German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But the interiors are straight-up '60s opulent: there are travertine walls and an arena-size master bathroom clad entirely in Carrara marble...
...then there's Twin Palms. The Sinatra estate, designed by local architect E. Stewart Williams in 1946, has four bedrooms, ample areas for entertaining and one very thick shag rug. "You can sit by the piano-shaped pool and sip cocktails from the retro bar," says Kevin Blessing, CEO of Beau Monde Villas, which manages the house. Alas, Ol' Blue Eyes' recording equipment is not connected for use. And there's a $1,000 security deposit because, as Sinatra crooned, accidents will happen after...
According to Kevin A. Mckluskey ’76, over 250 Allston residents have already signed up to become education portal members, which will also grant them access to the Blodgett swimming pool...
...ought to do is pick a figure from the Washington establishment. He needs, instead, to reinforce his message of change and shake up the status quo with an outsider untainted by the Capitol games. Such a pick would be aimed not at the party's base but at the pool of independent voters who still aren't comfortable with Obama and are looking all summer for signs that he is both something different and up to the job. Those who back this approach have been talking about Kaine for months in this context, as well as former Virginia governor Mark...
...general, Obama has proposed more new spending programs than McCain, but even here the details get tricky. McCain, for example, has a new risk pool, which would help provide health insurance to those with pre-existing conditions, and he wants to continue to grow the size of the Army and Marines. Obama has a big new green-energy fund, a plan for national service and the promise of more money for education. The green-energy fund would be paid for, Obama says, by selling energy producers permits for producing greenhouse gases...