Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That commonsense approach has guided the Bronx-born Klein through a distinguished, albeit low-keyed, career. A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard law school, Klein clerked for former Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell Jr. and went on to argue regularly before the high court as a private attorney. He says his biggest victory was a 1992 ruling that lets students who have been victims of sexual harassment collect damages from schools that get federal funding...
...markets for software and personal computers. "This is an enormously challenging time in terms of the application of antitrust law to a fast-moving industry," Klein says. Few who know him well--and increasingly those who don't--doubt that this Friend of Bill's from the Bronx is up to the task. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/Washington
Here's the plot so far: three years ago, Melrose Place fanatic Ken Hart, a regular guy (though he claims he was reared by mountain goats at the Bronx Zoo), was living in Boston, when a co-worker and co-fan moaned that she had missed the previous night's episode. Faster than you can say "Courtney Thorne-Smith," Hart whipped off an E-mail recap of the episode, which he "spiced up a little" with his own wry commentary. His first recap was so well received that he did it again the next week and the week after that...
...Those were the days. I gladly forked over hundreds of dollars for scalped tickets to Game 6, missed sections by the bushel and watched as the baseball world fell in love with a team whose spirit was bigger than the Bronx's right-field power alley...
...named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something that even the seller cannot authoritatively trace back to Bobby Thomson's bat? (DeLillo's readers know about Cotter Martin and can make the connection, but his characters can't.) Why, especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home run was hit? "It's not about Thomson hitting the homer," an embarrassed Nick explains to some colleagues who have learned of his possession. "It's about Branca making the pitch. It's all about losing...