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Seeking Serenity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:49 PM Original message |
New York Palace Hotel boss Niklaus Leuenberger gets the door after Ash Wednesday slur |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. How the hell was Helmsley busted? |
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Seeking Serenity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Tax evasion conviction in 1989. |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
2. I think firing was entirely appropriate. |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. My guess is that this isn't the first time.................... |
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PopSixSquish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I'm Going to Agree With You |
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Seeking Serenity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. True. True. |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 08:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. I think the way the dismissal was handled |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
4. How can you have that prestigious a job and be so clueless? |
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hugo_from_TN (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I'm 46 and I've never seen that before. |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:12 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. The streets of NYC are full of people with ashes on foreheads on Ash Wednesday. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. And it's always on the tv news like clockwork every Ash Wednesday. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. I don't think your area is very Catholic |
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sammythecat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Precisely my thoughts too. n/t |
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Irishonly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 03:18 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I am not Catholic but my church has an Ash Wednesday Service |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 03:38 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. I'm 54 (until next month) |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 03:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. here |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 04:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Thanks for the link |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 04:10 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I grew up in NYC |
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Pastiche423 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 05:13 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I lived in San Francisco for twenty years |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 10:15 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Foreign to me. |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. This hotel is right behind |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. I don't think it was cluelessness. (nt) |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
7. Probably got fired |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
11. My guess is that it was just one of the last of a long list |
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kas125 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 03:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. "The hotel leases its land from the Catholic Church. " That could |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 04:19 PM Response to Reply #22 |
27. Wow. |
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sasquatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. A hustler in the purest sense of the word |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. How the hell did this guy get hired in the first place? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
15. He also cursed at an employee, so the religious insensitivity wasn't all. |
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sallylou666 (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-25-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
19. High turnoever rate |
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