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...Cincinnati's Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, president of the bishops' conference, acknowledges that the Detroit meeting "tended to increase polarization and factionalism" in some quarters. Nonetheless, last fall he named a task force of bishops to figure out what response should be made. The behind-the-scenes struggle centered on preparation of a statement giving the hierarchy's formal views on the issues. The statement of response went through seven drafts. One version, completed in March, had a "Neanderthal" view of the church, in the opinion of Bishop James Rausch of Phoenix, the former general secretary...
...When Cincinnati Second Baseman Joe Morgan comes to bat, his eyes widen noticeably, a palpable sign to the man on the mound that Morgan is studying him with the intensity of a leopard crouching in a tree. On the bases, he measures the movements of the game just as keenly: taking the millisecond advantage, then streaking toward a stolen base, judging the parabola of a teammate's hit before springing around the bases, sliding in just ahead of the throw. Joe Morgan, the National League's Most Valuable Player for two years in a row, is surely...
...like horses," Cauthen said. "I played a year of Little League baseball, and my high school in Kentucky, Walton-Verona, isn't far from Cincinnati. It was full of baseball freaks and basketball freaks. But I liked horses. They're creatures of habit and smarter than most people think. My mother trains horses and my dad's a blacksmith, and they have some acreage, so I grew up with horses and horse people. It takes me about five minutes now to get the feel of a new horse. I love New York racing. I love riding the well-bred horses...
Cool and Competent. Sane Backe is. He also is cool and competent, traits going back at least to his days as a Strategic Air Command pilot in the 1950s (he still flies around on weekends in his private Cessna). After receiving his M.B.A. from Cincinnati's Xavier University, he worked for General Electric. In 1966 he joined Silver Burdett Co., the publishing arm of General Learning Corp. (then owned jointly by GE and Time Inc.); General Learning was set up to explore new teaching techniques. Two years later Backe was running Silver Burdett, then he became chief executive...
...Southwestern Publishing Company is in Cincinnati, and hyphenates its name, South-Western. The Southwestern Company is in Nashville, and has worked with college students continuously since...