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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...
...collection, they grabbed his pregnant wife Kim and shoved her into a wall. Within days she suffered a miscarriage." The Katona episode is one of the most vivid horror stories the N.R.A. has been telling lately in its campaign to pillory the ATF. In a lawsuit now pending in Cleveland federal court, the Katonas are charging the ATF with the death of their unborn child and other offenses. But there's much more, or ultimately less, to this story than the N.R.A. would have people understand...
...choosing the targets of its investigations, the ATF relies heavily on tips from local police. In March 1991 the Cleveland office of ATF got a call from Sheriff Shawber, who had come to suspect, erroneously, that out-of-towners were buying machine guns from Louis Katona's father, Louis Katona Jr., a licensed dealer, and then listing false local addresses on their registration forms...
...revival of this much maligned city says a lot about the redemptive powers of the national pastime. Too bad, though, that most of the rest of baseball has become Cleveland...