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...Rent control--the affordable housing plan which provoked bitter debates and divided Cambridge for 25 years--is gone...
...Rent control was repealed by a statewide referendum which fully took effect January 1. Municipal elections will no longer pivot around the issue...
Consider, for example, a husband who felt that his wife was his "possession" given that his efforts paid for her livelihood: her food, rent, health care and other necessities. Today, if he took it into his head to physically reprimand her "for her own good," and claimed it was necessary and none of anyone else's business, there would probably be much more of an uproar than if it were his child. Why is that? Perhaps because children do not have the same voice, socially or legally, that adults do, despite the similarity of their situations with regard to their...
...anyone who wants to rent a general, the place to go is Military Professional Resources Inc., headquartered in a squat, red brick office building in Alexandria, Virginia. Eight years old and with annual revenues of about $12 million, MPRI is, according to its brochure, "the greatest corporate assemblage of military expertise in the world." With 160 full-time employees and some 2,000 retired generals, admirals and other officers on call, it is making a fair claim. Among its most prominent executives are retired four-star General Carl Vuono, who ran the Army during Desert Storm and now heads...
...WOMB FOR RENT...