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...really identified with any issues in the State House--rent control, welfare reform, prison reform--things that you would think, given his constituents, he would be interested [in]," he says...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: State Representative Alvin Thompson Draws Friends, Fire | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...Many people would like to see him more active, particularly in these times where the liberal agenda is under attack from conservatives in this society," adds Lee, a leading prorent control advocate in the period last fall before rent control's abolition. "Alvin hasn't been there to do that...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: State Representative Alvin Thompson Draws Friends, Fire | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...blacks that the party once encouraged. The results have been heartening. Before the election, 80% of the residents of Soweto, the teeming black township near Johannesburg, refused to pay their electricity bills. Today nearly 70% pay them. In the 1970s Ezekial Morailane, a school-bus driver, began withholding his rent to the Soweto Council for his matchbox house. Today he pays it regularly and is even working off his debt. "Now that the country is in the hands of the rightful people," he says, "I'll sweep the streets of Johannesburg if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LAND SINGING TWIN ANTHEMS | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

With the local police lieutenant hip to their gambling schemes, all of the usual locations prove too risky, and Nathan Detroit (Benjamin Toro), must scramble to raise the $1,000 necessary to rent out the Biltmore Garage. The infamous Sky Masterson (Joel Kurtzberg) breezes into town on his way to Cuba, claiming, amongst other things, that he can get "any doll to Havana" that Detroit names. Detroit, desperate for cash, bets $1,000 on a militant missionary named Sarah Brown. Their wager launches the requisite musical love story...

Author: By Danielle E. Kwatinetz, | Title: Nice Guys (and Dolls) Finish First | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...There could be a reconfigured grocery store with more square footage," Boulrice said. "If Stop and Shop for whatever reason does not wish to operate this store, then perhaps they could rent the space to independent management who would...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Food Shopping Markets May Merge | 5/2/1995 | See Source »

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