"Boycott the Times! Boycott the Times!" chanted angry members of the Manhattan Libertarian party outside New York Times headquarters on West 43rd Street. Their October 20 protest was a refreshing response to what party spokesman Richard Cooper calls "Time$cam" — the paper's legalized theft of other people's property. The Times wants to build a 52-story office tower nearby on Eighth Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets, across from the Port Authority bus terminal. Inconveniently enough, that land already hosts about 30 companies in 11 different buildings. Rather than purchase these parcels from individual owners, the Old Gray Lady unleashed the...
