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...ambiguous nature of Harvard's intentions to dispose of these six recently purchased parcels troubles longtime tenant activist Michael H. Turk. "It's always difficult to determine to what extent HRE is engaged in property acquisitions for the sake of expanding Harvard's commercial property or as a cover for the extension of the University itself," says Turk, a frequent opponent of Harvard who lives in University-owned housing...
...recital. At one point, he brought his partner Hakim to a meeting with Ghorbanifar as a translator, but since Ghorbanifar already knew Hakim and considered him an "enemy of the ((Iranian)) state," Secord dressed up the bald Hakim in a wig and glasses and passed him off as a Turk. "It flew," said Secord laconically. At another point, Secord considered Ghorbanifar so untrustworthy that he told the Iranian middleman he would recommend to the U.S. Government that Ghorbanifar be "terminated." Recounted Secord, with the barest ghost of a smile: "He misinterpreted that." The Senate Caucus Room broke up in laughter...
...think a perjury case would only get off theground if the Board recommended it," Turk said...
...related case last August, CRCB held thatHarvard had violated rent control ordinances byrenting apartment 209 in the same building toFerranti-Dege. The camera dealer had first rentedfrom Harvard in 1985, Turk said. In that case theBoard did not uphold the hearing examiner'srecommendation that Harvard be legally prosecuted
...similar status is ensured for Rifat Ozbek. He is, quite literally, a young Turk, 32 years old and born in Istanbul. He studied architecture for two years at the University of Liverpool, but dropped out after construction technicalities began to overwhelm his design inspiration. Fashion offered a fresher, faster alternative: he was beguiled by the speed with which ideas could become a malleable reality. He showed his first eight fashion sketches at London's St. Martin's School of Art, and was immediately accepted. "He's an enormously talented designer with an original point of view," says Lydia Kemeny, Ozbek...