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Discord among Cambridge neighborhood organizations may jeopardize a June agreement between Harvard and the Cambridge City Council over the fate of nearly 700 of the University's formerly rent-controlled apartments...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Harvard-City Housing Plan Falters | 8/16/1996 | See Source »

...design pretty much any kind of program they want. They can decide just how hard someone applying for welfare must look for a job--for example, how many prospective employers must he or she phone or visit a week? The states can vary how much to pay for rent and food, how much for bus or train rides (or even gasoline) to enable welfare clients to travel to new jobs; even how much in day-care vouchers to enable working mothers to pay someone to take care of their young children. An intriguing possibility: a welfare mother who finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIPPING UP WELFARE | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...group simply called Emperor, to sign up for 55 minute turns at the microphone in the official "Protest Site" across from the convention center. Just in case, they are also installing metal detectors. Lesser squabbles are swirling around protests by individuals. When a billboard company refused to rent space to Brian Monaghan, a local Democratic attorney, for a sign reading "Republicans: Protecting our children's right to own assault weapons", Monaghan managed to come up with an acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware: Grand Old Party Headed This Way | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...group simply called Emperor, to sign up for 55 minute turns at the microphone in the official "Protest Site" across from the convention center. Just in case, they are also installing metal detectors. Lesser squabbles are swirling around protests by individuals. When a billboard company refused to rent space to Brian Monaghan, a local Democratic attorney, for a sign reading "Republicans: Protecting our children's right to own assault weapons", Monaghan managed to come up with an acceptable alternative: "Republicans: Protecting individual rights from the moment of conception ... until birth." Maybe they didn't get it. One way or another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware: Grand Old Party Headed This Way | 8/8/1996 | See Source »

...writing for) are filled with coverage of every tiny action, from who's catering the media parties to what the podium looks like. The Republican National Committee and the San Diego Host Committee have overtaken two floors of a downtown office building, spending about $3,000 alone to rent plants and purchase floral arrangements for the space. And, in not necessarily detrimental but certainly unusual occurrences, streets connecting the airport to downtown are being repaved, billboards welcoming the GOP fleet are popping up and the homeless are being readied to disappear from downtown's boulevards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Conventional Wisdom | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

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