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...century later, and the noose is still tight around The Tenants of Time. Absentee landholders and bankers squeeze the squires, who drain the tenant farmers. Eviction, the workhouse and starvation are common fates. The women cling to the church and the men to the bottle, but a growing number, like Edward Nolan, take to the gun. Nolan was a Fenian leader at the time of Clonbrony; later he is hardened in Portland prison and becomes experienced in conspiracy and vengeful murder on both sides of the Atlantic...
...there's one item that would draw unanimous [City] Council hostility, it's the mortgage program," says veteran tenant activist Michael Turk...
...amendment, presented by Senator Arthur J. Lewis, Jr. (D-Boston), would make it illegal for employers and landlords to inquire about the sexual orientation of a prospective employee or tenant. The amendment, however, does not explicitly state that it is illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation...
This Sullivan argues that rent control imposes hard and often absurd burdens on small landlords, and he supports a system of "vacancy decontrol," which would allow an owner to stop renting a controlled apartment after the tenant left. Supporters of the current system, however, say David J.'s proposal would both reduce the housing stock and encourage landlords to use devious means of getting tenants to move...
...David J. indignantly points out, David E.was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and first enteredCambridge politics as a Harvard Law School studentwho discovered that he was not allowed to vote inCambridge. After working to get the vote forstudents, he stayed in Cambridge--and stayed incity politics as a liberal tenant advocate whoopposes university expansion