Word: squatter
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...Squatters are people who see art as a necessity and exchange, not a luxury housed in galleries,” Art Squatter Amar C. Bakshi ’05 says...
...land is. Chanot ti din' means the land has been surveyed properly, and this is the best type of title to have. But there are many other types, such as Nor Sor and Nor Sor 3 Kor, which indicate imprecise boundaries. Sor Kor titles bestow little more than squatter's rights...
...Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto all the more welcome. De Soto has spent years looking deep inside the underground economies where poor people--who make up two-thirds of the world's population--eke out a living. He figures the value of their extralegal property, from cinder-block squatter homes to black-market street-vendor sales, at almost $10 billion. De Soto insists that bringing the poor and their assets into the formal economy, which is usually closed to them by oligarchies and epic red tape, would eclipse all previous development efforts...
Fate could hardly be less kind to the 2 million Filipinos estimated to live in the slums of Manila?labyrinths of squatter huts without electricity or plumbing and filled to their corrugated roofs with pestilence and vermin. Every once in a while, life there gets even crueler. Two Sundays ago, an incident occurred at Block 4, Lot 41, of a Manila shantytown on the grounds of the Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell...
...introduction is quite fitting, considering that Mary Lou Lord’s career as a singer/songwriter began as an attempt to keep warm. While studying music production and engineering at the London School of Audio, Lord lived as a squatter in a room where the heat was operated by an electricity meter that ran on 50-pence coins. One day a street musician asked her to hold his guitar while he went to the bathroom. Lord, whose guitar skills at the time were crude at best, took the opportunity to play one of the few songs she knew, John Prine?...