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January 19, 2007
Barclays rap sheet gets longer
Brooklyn Paper has more on the checkered history of new Nets naming-rights sponsor Barclays Bank, including dabbling in the slave trade, the Holocaust, South African apartheid, and civil war in the Congo. Now that's the kind of publicity you just can't buy ... for less than $400 million, anyway.
NPR's All Things Considered, meanwhile, reports that most Brooklynites think the arena's new name honors Charles Barkley. Which is actually kind of appropriate, since he too has an association with violence in Africa.
http://citypages.com/databank/28/1361/article15027.asp
twin cities weekly "city pages" has done a good job with this story.
if the link breaks down; the issue is jan 3, 2007 in the archives tab at the home site
http://citypages.com
Posted by ken on January 22, 2007 01:01 PM