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By ROHIT CHOPRA | July 24, 2009

My favorite scene in La bohème is when Benoit, the landlord, comes to collect the rent from his cashless Bohemian tenants. The solution: get him drunk and he’ll forget. Maybe this worked in Paris in 1840, but now it seems like landlords have a Blackberry button that instantly e-mails you an eviction notice. →

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