"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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