Word: montreal
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MONTREAL—By July 16, 2001, Red Sox Nation’s invasion of Montreal was already two days old. Hours before the evening’s Olympic Stadium showdown, a French-Canadian tour guide was surrounded by a rowdy mob donning the traditional red-B headwear of the city’s transient majority. Initially the Expos employee concludes his tour with the customary “I hope you all enjoy the game tonight,” but then sensing the opportunity for last-second tips from the privileged throwing around their foreign currency like play money...
...many Red Sox fans, humiliating the Expos in their own home park was the ultimate ego-building experience. But that rush of self-esteem in Bostonian veins was sucked straight out of the Montreal faithful, victims of a seemingly doomed franchise. In Monday’s game, a grandmother escorted her nine-year old grandson to the V.I.P. section. The child, wide-eyed with an Expos cap and baseball glove, looked bewildered as he was surrounded by six-foot tall Red Sox fans. The grandmother frowned every time they stood up to cheer and did not utter a word...
...surface and a retractable roof that could never retract. But when team owner Jeff Loria, a New York city art dealer, decided against renewing his lease on the land earmarked for the new Labatt Stadium and failed to negotiate any English-language television deal, almost no one outside of Montreal blinked...
...living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000 - only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...
...living thing. Release of murder defendants pending trial was unheard of, but Einhorn's attorney was soon-to-be U.S. senator Arlen Specter, and bail was set at a staggeringly low $40,000 - only $4,000 of it needed to walk free. It was paid by Barbara Bronfman, a Montreal socialite who had married into the Seagram distillery family and met Einhorn through a common interest in the paranormal. It was Einhorn's new rage, and his orbit of friends had expanded to include Uri Geller, the spoon-bending Israeli illusionist...