Word: cincinnati
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...Hawall; James Jackson '04, Boston, Mass., for New England; Phillip C. Staples '04, Philadelphia, Pa., for E. Pa and Del.; William W. Fisher '04, Dallas, Tex., for Tex., Okla., N. Mex., and Ariz.; Samuel A. Welldon '04, New York City, for New York City; John J. Rowe '06, Cincinnati, O., for South Ohio; George B. Simmons '07, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland; Perey W. Brown '08, Cleveland, O., for North Ohio; Chaster I. Barnard '10, Newark, N. J., for New Jersey; Charles H. Wolfe '10, Pittsburgh, Pa., for West Pennsylvania; Clarence B. Randall '12, Chicago, III., for central Div., Chicago; Hale...
...darn, the fans love him. Which may explain why baseball commissioner Bud Selig has been negotiating to lift the lifetime ban on the all-time hits leader and make him eligible for the Hall of Fame. In 1989 Rose was accused of betting on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. An investigation produced strong evidence that he had done so, but Rose steadfastly refused to admit it. Instead, he copped to betting on other sports and accepted his banishment for life. That "for life" part has struck some baseball fans as excessive, and sentiment for giving Rose a break...
...boom times, corporations gobbled up suites, which go for as much as $400,000 a season. "You could take orders for suites on napkins at a cocktail reception," says Bill Dorsey, executive director of the Association of Luxury Suite Directors, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. "Now you have to show value...
...Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee pressured Tenet to declassify testimony by a top aide who rated the likelihood of Saddam's initiating a chemical or biological weapons attack against the U.S. as "low." That testimony appeared to contradict Bush's claim in Cincinnati that Saddam could lob those weapons at the U.S. or its allies "on any given day." Bush sympathizers saw a sellout by the CIA. "That wasn't intelligence, that was pure speculation," groused a former senior Pentagon official...
Tenet fact-checked a footnoted version of Bush's Cincinnati speech before the President delivered it, correcting a few items and satisfying himself that it represented the agency's view. So perhaps it is not surprising that, according to a White House aide, Bush was miffed that testimony Tenet later declassified seemed to contradict part of his speech. Tenet wasted no time rectifying the situation. The next day he issued an unusual clarification that there was "no inconsistency" between the CIA's view and that of the President. --With reporting by James Carney and Michael Duffy/Washington