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DIED. John Sparkman, 85, former Democratic Senator from Alabama and Adlai Stevenson's 1952 vice-presidential running mate; of a heart attack; in Huntsville, Ala. Son of a tenant farmer, Sparkman spent 42 years in Congress, serving ten years in the House and 32 years in the Senate, even though he was sometimes accused back home of "going North and turning left." A powerful housing advocate as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee (1967-74), he also supported the Panama Canal treaties while chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1975 until his retirement four...
...Prices were soaring and it seemed like an effortless way to get rich, so my brother and I pooled our money and bought a place for $327,000. Within 18 months, the market had tanked and the apartment's value had plunged by a third. By then, our tenant?who turned out to be a coke-snorting stripper?had stopped paying rent. When I threatened to change the locks, she whacked me on the head with her handbag and warned: "I know people in this town, and you're going to end up at the bottom of the East River...
Current clinical instructors for the Tenant Advocacy Program (TAP)—attorneys Marcia C. Peters and Lynn Weissberg—will be replaced on July 1 by instructors from the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center, a general practice law office in Boston that is maintained...
While going to court to resolve a pet- custody dispute may seem extreme, it is just one of the legal options available to protect animals and the people who care for them. Veterinary-malpractice suits, pet-cruelty cases and even landlord-tenant disputes over animals are reaching the courts as well. In New York City, Cindy Adams, a gossip columnist for the New York Post, has called for legislation that would ensure better conditions at dog kennels after her Yorkshire terrier Jazzy died, allegedly at a kennel. Some 23 states now allow enforceable pet trusts, in which people set aside...
...most influential person in this humming hive isn't a designer, fashion editor or It girl. It's Hiroshi Tsutsumi, director of tenant planning for the firm that owns 109. Don't let the Orwellian title fool you. It's up to Tsutsumi to decide which designers and companies get to set up shop at 109. That makes the unassuming Tsutsumi, 50, the queenmaker and ultimate power broker of Japan's teen-fashion universe. He helped oversee an overhaul a few years ago that transformed 109 from a conventional clothing mall into the highly concentrated--and profitable--teen wonderland...