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Boston has long been a metropolis resentful towards outsiders, and it takes little to be deemed foreign by the local establishment. When New England Patriots owner Robert K. Kraft proposed to move his franchise to South Boston, local politicians lashed out at Kraft’s proposal and lampooned him as an ignorant outsider—this despite his being from Brookline. Around the same time, de facto Red Sox chief John L. Harrington proposed to build a new stadium for his team. Although the stadium plans were ultimately shelved, local pols took the Hyde Park native seriously and agreed...
...such disparate treatment? Harrington’s working class roots, Irish heritage, and heavy accent make him a consummate insider to whom the establishment is sympathetic. Kraft, on the other hand, grew up sans accent in a chic Boston suburb...
...Pave-aficionado will already have all those cuts, and the First Law of “Wowee Zowee”-era B-Sides states that, for every “Give it a Day,” there’s an equal and opposite “Kris Kraft.”Tellingly, the “new” material here includes a live version of “Kris Kraft.” We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel here, folks.Where 2004’s “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA?...
...Canadian border on the weekend and it was intimated that Vegemite was no longer to be imported because it contains folate. Then the Food and Drug Administration said Vegemite was not banned, because the folate in it was the not-banned sort of folate or something. But Kraft, the maker of Vegemite, still seems to think it's banned...
...Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), says the new Disney policy as well as nutritional standards established at companies like Kraft Foods increases the pressure on their competitors. "Companies are concerned about being blamed for the rising obesity rate in children and concerned about bad P.R. and they're concerned about litigation and about the government coming in to regulate them if they don't regulate themselves," Wootan said...