Word: cleveland
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...Tina Turner mannequin still needed a hair tease, and Madonna's gold bustier had yet to be mounted. But James Henke, the chief curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, had a more pressing problem one day last week. Showing a journalist around the museum, he was stopped by a group of workers who were about to install a Jimi Hendrix guitar on the wall. Hendrix, who was left-handed, played right-handed guitars with the strings on upside down. But the guitar they were about to hang was a right-handed...
Little Richard and Yoko Ono, though few on rock's current A-list, made it to the ribbon-cutting ceremony today in Cleveland for the $92 million Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a six-story glass and steel pyramid that may actually be worth the investment. "It's a very important museum," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is a lot more than seeing Bruce Springsteen's junior college poetry. It documents the history of an American art form. It's a great looking building that really captures the spirit of the music." The museum opens Saturday...
Cavanagh was instrumental in the creation of the American Business Conference, the New York City Partnership and the Cleveland Tomorrow Group...
This week, after months of stealthy preparations, the Speaker plans to take his campaign public, with a speech scheduled for Monday in Cleveland to lay out his sales pitch, though not an actual plan; that will wait until fall. Before Congress breaks for its August recess this week, he intends to prime his troops to deliver the message. It goes like this: Medicare's own trustees say the program will go bankrupt in seven years; the Democrats are too lily-livered to do anything about it; and so it is up to the Republicans to "save Medicare" by clamping down...
...months ago, I might have read about cutbacks for teaching hospitals and said, "What a shame!'' Today I am lying in a bone-marrow transplant ward in a Cleveland hospital. I have acute leukemia. As I watch the teams of dedicated doctors and nurses collaborate to make me well, as I realize all the research that has taken place to make my life and comfort possible, as I participate in studies to help others, I see that the crisis at teaching hospitals is more than "a shame'': it's a tragedy. If all the people working for Medicare...