Word: heraldically
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...interviewed this season by The Boston Herald proudly told the reporter that his marriage had fallen apart because he loved the Patriots more than his wife. In light of this massive investment by fans, the fact that the recipient of such loyalty should spurn it and give his own loyalties to another team and other fans seems to the Patriots' faithful to be the rankest ingratitude...
Until last month, only the Scientologists and human-rights observers were paying much attention to what was going on in Germany. Then a startling letter appeared in the International Herald Tribune, signed by 34 show-biz celebrities and studio executives, comparing the purported discrimination suffered by Scientologists in Germany today to the "unspeakable horrors" perpetrated against the Jews in the 1930s. That comparison provoked outrage in the American Jewish community. Last week the State Department stepped in to address the charges in its influential yearly Human Rights Report. Spokesman Nicholas Burns went even further than the report, flatly accusing Germany...
...names adorning the full-page letter in the International Herald Tribune guaranteed attention: Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn, Larry King, Gore Vidal. Others, like Michael Marcus, Terry Semel, Sherry Lansing, Casey Silver and John Calley, may be less familiar, but in Hollywood they are just as famous and considerably more powerful as top executives at five of the major studios--MGM, Warner, Paramount, Universal and Sony Pictures Entertainment...
Even so, much of Miami's fiscal mess is directly traceable to its uniquely fast-and-loose municipal traditions. A Miami Herald investigation found that in the midst of its current fiscal crisis, the city is still leasing out a good chunk of its $600 million in property to politically connected businesses at well below market rents. Among those who benefit: the Municipios Trust Fund Corp., a group of prominent Cubans who got a $1-a-year, 20-year lease on city-owned property to build a clubhouse and community center. "The politicians here just give land away to their...
...passage of this initiative may herald new, more intense and perhaps more successful efforts to rollback affirmative action nationwide. However, the recent Texaco scandal demonstrates some of the reasons why these policies were enacted and why they are still necessary. Texaco was rocked last week by the release of secretly recorded tapes of top management mocking black employees and conspiring to destroy documents that could prove that the company's promotion practices were discriminatory. One Texaco executive sneered that "all the black jellybeans seem to be glued to the bottom...