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...houses stand across the street from the vacant lot where a group of homeless squatters set up a community in October they called Tent City...
...scheduled to petition the board for permission to demolish the vacant houses at a hearing scheduled for March 16. MIT's lawyer, Scott Lewis, asked the board to consider both the violations and the university's petition for permission to destroy the buildings last night. But the board decided to wait to consider the removal petition until its regularly scheduled meeting next month...
...series L.A. Law, which has recently turned its hand to social-action stories and away from money, its founding muse. Tom Wolfe, who has forged a career out of the superficialities of the times, now produces a novel about vanity, sensing that people may be ready to condemn the vacant, self-celebrating life. The plague of AIDS, in its own dark way, has contributed to a national maturing by forcing prospective lovers to confront one another as realities and not as players in a game...
...freezing temperatures were matched by an icy militancy among some vagrants. In Chicago, 30 homeless men broke into vacant apartments in a housing project and had to be chased out by guards. In Oakland, police arrested 17 protesters who were part of a group that seized three empty Victorian houses for several hours. Some cities have reacted to the winter plight of the homeless by opening doors that are usually shut after 5 o'clock. Washington's city council last week authorized the use of municipal buildings, including the city hall, as overnight shelters when the temperature falls...
...these people help themselves when all they think about is food?" asks the Fire Tender. "Give them food, and then they can put their heads and hands to work fighting misery." Although the city plans to evict Beacon from the vacant lot to build subsidized housing on the site, the Fire Tender does not intend to let his flame go out. His next temple, he says, will be in Spanish Harlem...