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...doctor's words may speak louder than actions, but every patient hears them differently, and doctors end up feeling they cannot win. When Cincinnati receptionist Doris Roetting had a mastectomy in the fall of 1987, her surgeon assured her that she was recuperating nicely. Her oncologist, however, was a bit more explicit, to Roetting's dismay. He quietly explained that she had a 90% chance of being alive in five years and an 80% chance of surviving ten years. Some patients might have been grateful for such candor; Roetting went home in tears. "I think everybody who has cancer knows...
...Halbreich, formerly of M.I.T.'s List Visual Arts Center, along with Fumio Nanjo of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Nagoya, Japan, and Shinji Kohmoto of the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. It will run in San Francisco through Aug. 6, then travel to Akron, Boston, Seattle, Cincinnati, New York City and Houston through early...
...opening chords provide the greatest dissonance. At the start of the first chapter are two quotes from Hall-of-Fame baseball star Ted Williams: one about himself and another about Black Cincinnati Reds star Eric Davis. In one, the former Bosox star says he developed his talents through practice; in the other, he says Davis is blessed with God-given athletic abilities...
...last day of Rose's first season, the great Stan Musial squirted a final pair of singles, one to each side of Cincinnati's rookie second baseman, and retired. For 18 years Rose deplored those bouncing balls as two hits he might not have needed to pass Musial. He thinks that's normal: "How hard is it to remember you had 170 hits your first year and 139 your second, which is only 309 your first two years, when you've had ten 200-hit years and are averaging 198 hits a season for 20 years?" Furthermore: "If you have...
Rose's father was a banker, a numbers man who always seemed to be hunched over a column of figures. He was also a semipro football player who competed into middle age for the old Cincinnati Bengals. "When I was young," the son recalls, "people would stop me on the street to tell me I could never be what my father...