Word: kramer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Salman Rushdie booked for the week the fatwa was issued,” the owner of the Harvard Book Store, Frank Kramer, excitedly explained while pointing to a promotional poster for Rushdie’s appearance on the wall. “Borders and Waldenbooks pulled his books from their displays, but we talked to all our employees and said, ‘You don’t have to work now if you don’t want to, but we’d like to keep the books...
...Kramer has run the Harvard Square landmark since 1962—witnessing renovations, expansions, and the openings and closings of several satellite stores—and his experience in retail has made him a passionate believer in the benefits of locally owned businesses over chains, such as Borders or Waldenbooks...
...With the recent opening of an International House of Pancakes branch, and Qdoba’s plan to begin selling burritos in the Square this March, chain stores are increasingly entering the Cambridge market. Kramer and a group of other local business owners banded together last year to form a coalition, Cambridge Local First, dedicated to reversing this trend...
...Kramer says his strong belief in helping local businesses compete with chains stems in part from his own trying experience as a local business owner competing against a non-local store...
Richards, who played Kramer on the hit ’90s sitcom “Seinfeld,” was caught on video saying some very nasty things to two black men who supposedly interrupted his act at the Laugh Factory. (The men claim they were just ordering drinks.) Instead of using a witty line to put the hecklers in their place, Richards used a racist...