Word: chris
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...activist group in Calvert County, a rural exurb of Washington where the rolling farmland is dotted by weathered barns and crab shacks. Complete strangers signed up. A retired Air Force pilot, Phil Pfanschmidt, and his wife Joyce, both 71, came to the first meeting in December. So did Chris Melendez, a self-employed art dealer who lives about 30 miles away. Richardson's old motorcycle buddy Al Leandre brought his wife, a public-school teacher, and passed the word to some friends he had met through his government-contracting business. With a few clicks of a mouse, the Owings Grass...
...Secretary-General that he "regretted" the shelling of the U.N. compound but added, "I don't know if you know, but Hamas attacked from within the UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] compound during the humanitarian cease-fire." One U.N. official dismissed this claim as "nonsense," and spokesman Chris Gunness claimed that in a liaison meeting between U.N. and Israeli officials, "the military admitted that the firing did not originate inside the U.N. compound but several hundred meters away." He added, "This isn't the first time that the Israeli government spokesman has made baseless accusations against...
...Generally, hedge-fund managers are loath to endorse more regulation, but even Chris Kundro, co-chief executive officer at New York City-based LaCrosse Global Fund Services, which manages $13 billion in assets for its clients, believes the Madoff case "has changed things." Kundro told Bloomberg TV last week that the Madoff fraud was a unique situation that added to the overall crisis in investor confidence. Since Madoff, Kundro said, there is "now a fundamental shift in thinking that some regulation may be needed for feeder funds...
...Start, Go! is warming up on stage. Over the lively buzz of conversation, and with the smell of french fries in the air, the five band members jam on their instruments and adjust sound levels.Finally, 20 minutes after the show was slated to begin, the black-clad lead singer, Chris XX. Powers, steps up to the microphone. “Hello everybody! How are you all doing tonight?” he says. The audience responds enthusiastically.Powers announces that the first song they will perform, entitled “Honest,” will be available on their...
...tone for several actors who died last year. Van Johnson, 92, was the boy-next-door type, wooing such luscious ingenues as Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, June Allyson and Janet Leigh. But he laced his altar-boy grin with a terrier's raspy impatience; he was the Chris Matthews of 1940s MGM. A trash-talking, proto-rapping musical-comedy star of a later era, Rudy Ray Moore, 81, created the street-smut sasser Dolemite as part of his stand-up act, then used the character as the hero of a legendarily transgressive 1975 blaxploitation epic. Stick around for the kung...