Word: rent
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University Hall. Just because it's gray, dreary and institutional-looking doesn't mean it has to have a gray, dreary and institutional-sounding name. Its abbreviation is the name of rent-a-truck company. What better argument could be made for a new identity...
Contrary to statements in The Crimson, I have not provided "false testimony" to the Cambridge Rent Control Board or any of its agents. In fact, I have never even been asked to make a statement before any such board--"under oath" or otherwise...
Fourth, had the Crimson taken greater care in its investigation, it might have noted that the Rent Control Board's hearing officer made his sweeping declarations about my moral integrity without ever giving me the slightest opportunity to speak on my own behalf. I lose both ways there--I am accused of lying to the board even though I had not been invited to any of several hearings, and because I was not present to defend myself, one of its officers freely castigated me in his individual interpretation of the case...
...wait. Where was this zeal during the vote on Cambridge rent control? Are these the same students who slept through the Republican takeover of Congress, who think that Chechnya is the latest version of Tetris...
Geraigery and other citizens say they fear the end of rent control may pave the way for massive changes in East Cambridge by encouraging developers to build more expensive condominium projects...