"Shelly is on tenterhooks, " said Michael Benjamin, a former Democratic assemblyman who served with Silver and now a political commentator.

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The result, according to Michael Schill and Benjamin Scafidi of New York University, is that 56% of the city's 1.9m rented homes are still regulated.

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The story is straightforward enough: Benjamin (Michael Angarano), a lonely teen-ager being home-schooled by his poor single mother (Jennifer Coolidge) in a dome-shaped house somewhere west of the Rockies, salves his soul by writing and illustrating whacked-out science-fiction fantasies.

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The authors of the report, commissioners Benjamin Tang and Michael Lunn, described themselves as "astonished and deeply dismayed" that the department had also failed to enforce regulations requiring boat operators to have an adequate number of life jackets on board for both adults and children.

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Blodget--along with Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Michael Parekh of Goldman Sachs and Keith Benjamin of BancBoston Robertson Stephens--is a member of an elite group of Wall Street Internet pundits who have the power to decide which net-stock is worthy of investors' money.

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The relevant email was sent to Rick Piltz, a UCAR employee at the time, and copied to Michael Mann, Pennsylvania State University, James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Benjamin Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the late Steven Schneider, Stanford University, and several other very prominent climate scientists.

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