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The WSJ tells the tale of 29-year-old Kristin Konopka who sent out nearly 100 copies of her résumé in search of receptionist work and got just one callback.
Land Short-Term Work With A Dumbed Down Résumé | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Zenon Konopka and Frans Nielsen also scored for the Islanders, who have won 11 of 19 since the All-Star break.
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Rabbit a la Berlin (Germany/Bartek Konopka): This seeming black and white doc about the erection of the Berlin Wall and its segregation of rabbits who first benefited from their privacy and then suffered later due to human folly, is a sly rumination on humanity's ability to shift its attention and transform its compassion.
Brad Schreiber: Highlights From the 2010 Palm Springs Short Film Festival 2010
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Tampa Bay right wing Adam Hall was scratched because of an upper-body injury, and Zenon Konopka was recalled from Norfolk of the AHL on an emergency basis.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Konopka didn't get to the arena until after the game had started, and missed most of the first period. ...
USATODAY.com 2008
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Rabbit a la Berlin (Germany/Bartek Konopka): This seeming black and white doc about the erection of the Berlin Wall and its segregation of rabbits who first benefited from their privacy and then suffered later due to human folly, is a sly rumination on humanity's ability to shift its attention and transform its compassion.
Brad Schreiber: Highlights From the 2010 Palm Springs Short Film Festival 2010
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They also sponsored refugees to the U.S., many of whom lived with them for some period of time, and they took in troubled adolescents whom Konopka calls her “family by choice,” because she and Paul had no children.
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Konopka worked briefly as a house-maid until, with the help of refugee committees, the couple were resettled in Pittsburgh.
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In her old age, Konopka lived in her spacious red wooden house overlooking Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, which was a tumble-down, unheated summer cottage when she and her husband bought it in 1948.
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Called “the mother of social group work,” Konopka brought to a defeated Germany her philosophy of “justice with a heart,” a concept that values the human being and stresses human dignity, interdependence and mutuality.
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