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...dramatic 8-1 vote yesterday, Cambridge City Council endorsed last-minute mediation to discourage landlords from raising rent for tenants whose protected-status will expire at the end of 1995, leaving them vulnerable to rent-control laws passed last November...
...council agreed to provide staff to conduct negotiations between all interested tenants and their landlords, "with the purpose of reaching an agreement for a 1 year extension of tenancy...at an affordable rent...
...does Weiner speak for us? Harvard has as much right as any other corporation to sell its holdings for what they fetch--above or below market value. Moreover, the University isn't even selling. Harvard intends to rent the apartments to students and faculty who surely deserve to live in Cambridge as much as the current residents...
...BETTER COME HOME, by Garrison Keillor, with paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher (Viking; $15.99), presents the sage of Lake Wobegon in bardic mode, with a talking blues for cat owners. Puff disdains the low-rent cat food her master serves and hightails it for the big city. Her master pleads, "Come home, old Puff, come home to us,/ There's a lot of new benefits I'd like to discuss." No dice. "I saw her six months later in a cat magazine./ She was the Number One TV cat-food queen/...I could tell it was Puff even...
...supervision. Despite that, each Washington caseworker still carries double the 17 cases recommended by the Child Welfare League of America, and at least two dozen caseworkers in one of the department's divisions still wrangle over five cars. In Georgia's Barrow County, the general emergency funds to pay rent deposits, buy milk or fill a prescription usually run out by the middle of each month, and all the mental-health programs have waiting lists. Caseworkers in New York City lack computers; pens, white-out and photocopying paper are also limited. Sometimes, as a matter of policy, they...