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...years, the name Kroh stood for quality and reliability in the real estate industry. Kansas City-based Kroh Brothers Development built homes, shopping centers and office buildings from California to Florida. Along the way, it attracted such blue-chip investors in its projects as Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the American Stock Exchange, and the Hall family of Hallmark greeting-card fame. But in the past few months, Kroh has virtually collapsed. Beset by lawsuits and shunned by wary lenders, the company is now struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 provisions of the bankruptcy law. The brothers...
...core of the band, though, is still founding members Tony and Chip Kinman. The dialectic opposition between the brothers' individual songwriting and singing styles makes Rank and File unique, if bizarre. Tony Kinman is the more philosophical, introspective songwriter, while Chip has a "let's party" attitude. Tony writes about South Africa. Chip writes about Hollywood. Tony quotes Robert Frost Chip sings, "Oh! That girl, na na na na na na." You get the idea...
Vocally, the contrast between the brothers is just as bizarre. Tony sings sort of like Buckwheat, while Chip sings like Alvin the Chipmunk. Amazingly, the two together sound a lot like the Everly Brothers, which may be why the Everly Brothers themselves decided last year to cover the Kinman brothers' "Amanda Ruth...
...once the second half began the offense turned stale, allowing UMass to chip away at the Crimson's lead, eventually tying the game, 6-6, with 5:55 left in regulation...
...their book. The Strategic Defense Initiative, they assert, is an impractical, useless project. Only its usefulness to various special interest groups keeps it alive: the Europeans crave the billion dollar high-tech defense contracts SDI will bring them; arms-controllers such as Paul Nitze want a billion dollar bargaining chip; and right-wingers led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle see it as a billion dollar way to violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and jettison the SALT agreements, and sabotage arms control. A useless Star Wars, they conclude, should be abandoned sooner rather than later...