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...servant in white households for most of her life. Her husband is dead, and she lives in a four-room house with her three daughters, two of whom have two children each. She earns $60 a month, and she gives her earnings to her eldest daughter, who pays the rent and keeps the rest for housekeeping expenses. Aletta's passbook, the identification blacks must carry at all times, has not been properly endorsed by previous employers for many years, and so she is not legally registered with her present employer. Occasionally she stays at the big house when the white...
...rankle Neuharth. "Editors who like to write or edit long stories don't like this paper," he says with equanimity. "Notice I didn't say 'like to read' long stories." Ask Neuharth if USA Today is here to stay, and he barely pauses. "If I had to bet the rent money," he says, "I'd bet it." --By James Kelly. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York, with other bureaus
...PAUL Barking dog again? On stpaul.gov report a gripe and track its progress online. Learn how to "adopt" new Hmong refugees (5,000 expected in '05) by helping with rent...
Vaghar’s alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.org, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories—such as the death or sickness of one of her parents—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...
...most of the "major" porn films (a critic's got to do what a critic's got to do). And I found that the filmmakers were eager to explore all kinds of genres. The Mitchells made a Fanny Hill-style period comedy, Autobiography of a Flea. Low-rent auteur Zebedy Colt pornofied a Crucible-like period drama with The Devil Inside Her.) Peter Locke's It Happened in Hollywood was a Laugh-In-inspired skitcom; one funny turn featured a man-woman trapeze act called the Flying Fucks. These weren't always very good movies, but they were real ones...