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...find them testing the Supreme Leader's mattress. They've set up a forest of radio antennas, and they prowl around in desert camouflague on a rooftop beside the spires of Omar's Arabian rococo mosque. The commandos are here to protect the other new tenant of Omar's house: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's new prime minister. With wrap-around shades, M-16 rifles, lap-tops, and their MRE's full of peanut butter, the commandos are a curiosity for Karzai's many visitors and well-wishers. These are turbaned tribal elders who gather in the old Taliban...
Back then, the Church was a highly undesirable tenant, perhaps even more than Harvard is today. A religious corporation like an abbey or monastery never made the standard payments for inheritance, marriages or felonies—instead, it evaded its taxes in perpetuity, controlling properties from beyond the grave with a “dead hand” (“mortmain”). The landowners complained bitterly of losing “the services which are due of such fees,” which after all were provided “for the defense of the realm...
Like most council candidates, Dixon —who says he is “pro-tenant, but not anti-landlord”—would like to create more affordable housing...
...this to my patients, my friends, the superintendent in my building as he repaints apartment 4D (whose tenant never came home), strangers in the street. I am surprised when people start saying it to me. I price gas masks on the Internet, consider prescribing myself emergency antibiotics. I wonder, horrified and hopeful, whether Club Med has dropped their prices, and can I go tomorrow? Suddenly, the escapism of my favorite television show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is not so escapist. But I love it even more, because now I know what it?s like to have evil nearby...
...Morgan Stanley Dean Witter--the World Trade Center's largest tenant, with 3,700 employees--sticking with its evacuation plan was critical to saving lives. Although someone on the south tower's public-address system informed workers that it was safe to return to their offices, Morgan's security officers kept them moving down dozens of flights of stairs. The result: all but six employees escaped. "Everybody knew about the contingency plan," said a Morgan spokesman. "We met constantly to talk about...