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Kennedy's likely confirmation by the Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Lewis F. Powell is thus no small consolation to those who were troubled by the prospect of a Justice Bork and unsure what to make of a Justice Ginsburg. At the very least, liberals can take comfort in the make-up of the rogue's gallery which virulently opposed his nomination after Bork's bid went down to defeat in the Senate. Anyone who could so arouse the wrath of Ed Meese, Jesse Helms, Orrin Hatch and Strom Thurmond...
...City Council last night told the Massachusetts Institute of Technology not to evict a "Tent City" of homeless people on the university's land, and adopted a new program to match vacant rent-controlled apartments with needy tenants...
...spokesman for the group, William O'Leary of East Boston, read a statement demanding several concessions from MIT, including the right to renovate three gutted houses next to the camp. MIT has announced plans to demolish these buildings, which have been vacant for 14 years according to the Tent City activists...
...other would have reserved rent-controlled apartments that became vacant for people on the city's waiting list for public housing. Walsh said this major change in the rent control laws would stop the wealthy from taking advantage of artificially low rents...
...vacant lot is owned by Women, Inc., a women's treatment and counseling center which operates out of an adjacent house. The group plans to give the land to Family Services of Greater Boston to build and run a transitional shelter and education programs. This group may use a design from the competition for the actual shelter, although members said the group might not be able to afford any project on the site...