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Earlier this month, Barker's fight to reclaim the land--now dotted with red FOR SALE signs and yellow NO TRESPASSING signs--got a boost. The U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to settle a 1997 class action that had accused the agency of denying black farmers loans and crop subsidies routinely available to white farmers. The landmark agreement requires the government to pay as much as $375 million to more than 3,500 black farmers. Most will probably accept the basic option guaranteeing a $50,000 tax-free payment and retirement of any government debts, which average about...
Elvis remained haunted by Gladys to the end of his days. He may have been prodigious, but, in Guralnick's thorough and compassionate telling, he could never be the prodigal son. He paid regular visits to her grave, as if trying to reclaim something. He traveled around the country, but he never left home in any deep sense. Indeed, at the end, he hardly left his room. "Oh, God, son, please don't go, please don't die," his father Vernon wailed as Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie, 9, ran frantically around the house, trying to get into the bathroom where...
...rent control in 1994 also gave HPRE on opportunity to reclaim many apartments. Through a deal with the city of Cambridge, HPRE arranged to offer its housing only to affiliates, rather than the public. In exchange, rent control tenants living in Harvard buildings can stay indefinitely, paying their rent control rates. Also, Harvard will pay a fee to the city in lieu of taxes on student only buildings...
REWARD FOR A "RIGHTEOUS GENTILE" Christoph Meili, a watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, tasted fame in January 1997 when he revealed that the bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group...
They are motivated by the desire to reclaim sole possession of the National Championship, which the men's team shared with Trinity last season and the women lost to Princeton...