Word: cincinnati
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Dershowitz made a pointedly rational case that Rose—who holds the all-time record for career hits, singles, at-bats and games played—should remain barred from the Hall as a result of alleged bets placed on the Cincinnati Reds while Rose was that team’s manager. Cochran, by contrast, prevailed after appealing largely to emotions in his defense of the three-time World Series champion’s right to enter the ballot for the Hall of Fame despite an agreement signed in 1990 permanently banning him from taking part in Major League...
...medications only every other day. If Congress can vote $77 billion to fund a war for six months, it can surely help out needy seniors. Better yet, how about eliminating the political contributions the drug companies make to politicians, so we can finally get some relief? SANFORD A. ZAFT Cincinnati, Ohio...
...were forming a hereditary honorary society made him livid. He raged that his countrymen had been seduced by the ribbons and crosses of the Old World; he did not believe honors either could or should be inherited. Were the project to survive (it did, as the Society of the Cincinnati), he proposed the officers follow the Chinese example and hand their decorations up to their parents rather than down to their children. This rant he confined to a letter to his daughter...
Hadid's father was a liberal Iraqi politician. When it came time for college, she studied math in Beirut, then architecture in London with Rem Koolhaas, now the graying eminence of the new. Hadid may have found the perfect client in the Cincinnati art center, a place that will go down in history for taking chances--and not just because of her. Thirteen years ago, when it was still lodged over a Walgreen's drugstore, it presented an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs that got its director arrested on obscenity charges. He was acquitted but not until after...
...20th century architecture, who once said even modern architecture is too staid. "Jazz is more advanced," he wrote in 1931. "If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle." It's too bad he didn't live to see Hadid's performance in Cincinnati. You know what he would have said? "This joint is jumpin...