Word: krafts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the question-and-answer period, I cited a long line of civil rights cases involving discrimination against individuals: St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks, Patterson v. McLean Credit Union, Waston v. Ft. Worth Bank, Ann Hopkins v. Price Waterhouse, Walter Walker v. Consumer's Power, and Christine Kraft v. Metromedia. None of these cases involved "preferences." Before I could finish, an obviously irritated Steele cut me off: "Of course there is discrimination. All I am saying to you is.. [dramatic pause]...don't let oppression define your humanity...
...dust clears from the Patriots relocation scare, support for the $700 million project appears to have diminished. The new Patriots owner, Robert Kraft, who also owns Foxborough Stadium, will keep the football club in Massachusetts. Thus, there is no longer an urgent need to entice the owner with the benefits of a state-funded football wonderland. And now liberal state politicians are wondering aloud whether other projects might better serve their constituents...
...Cambridge politicos are divided on the issue, which was put on the legislative back burner since new Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who owns the Foxborough stadium where the team now plays, has not publicly stated his position on the Megaplex...
...milk the story for sharp laughs. Last week he read an "NBC memo" regarding the intellectual properties Dave may not use on CBS: the letters N, B or C ("legally they're ours"); the term Letterman ("because it originated with the singing group who appeared on NBC's Kraft Music Hall with Eddy Arnold in 1970"); and the phrase "pinhead network executives" ("Pinhead network executives are the exclusive property...
These desperate, obsessively repeated evocations of a fouled world are brutally convincing. But they are merely grotesque, shifting stage sets, not the novel's action. And the failing of Operation Wandering Soul (aside from a surprisingly lame title) is that amid all its commotion, not much happens. Kraft and Espera try to have a romance, but they are too benumbed to make it work. Some of the hospital's sick children, not very convincingly, take a Pied Piper skit on tour. The author tells us that his hero is modeled after his own older brother, a surgeon, and sure enough...