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Implemented in the 1970s, rent control helped provide low-cost housing to residents in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline. Detractors, including many area landlords, claimed the program was rife with abuse, even citing then-Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 as an example of a rent-control tenant who did not need any protection...
...look upon it as a small miracle. (My gospel, after all, will speak of miracles.) Yet I would hope to remain closer to the truth. Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John were seeking to enlarge their fold." In other words, Mailer's Jesus suggests that the New Testament is rife with errors and exaggerations and that the time has come to set the record straight: "What is for me to tell remains neither a simple story nor without surprise, but it is true, at least to all that I recall...
...natural part of the human psyche, but so are self-centeredness and obstinacy. Rather than turn to God, we try to fill the hole in our souls with money, prestige, sex, drugs, alcohol, food, pop culture, occult knowledge--virtually everything. Where does this lead us? To a decaying society rife with addicts and 39 dead Trekkies. It's time to get our heads out of the stars and turn back to that old-time religion. BRIDGET FINNEY Ube, Japan...
...been spared. But not even the Christ-haunted Dostoyevsky tried to go where Mailer has now rushed in. Mailer anticipates and tries to soothe the initial uneasiness that his book will arouse in most of those who pick it up. Mailer?s Jesus suggests that the New Testament is rife with errors and exaggerations and that the time has come to set the record straight: ?What is for me to tell remains neither a simple story nor without surprise, but it is true, at least to all that I recall.? But believing Christians are going to have a little problem...
...announced the U.S.'s recovery plan for Europe in the wake of World War II, creating a turning point in the 20th century. It is perhaps unfair to ask her to make a proposal equal in importance to the Marshall Plan. Nonetheless, the choice of Albright as speaker in rife with historical meaning...