Word: clevelandism
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...course, there are marketing gaffes and then there's just plain bad judgment. In this enlightened age, why are the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins still showing up on the wire? I can't see why those college and pro outfits with Native American nicknames have yet to see the light. Some of the franchises argue that the names are meant to be positive-the Illinois Fighting Illini, for example, are supposed to honor the Native Americans of the region. Others are references to team history-Indians fans hold that their name is a tribute a Native American player, Louis...
...tailgate party organized by the class marshals will await the senior runners near Cleveland Park at mile 22, directly after the steepest portion of the course...
FOILED OCT. 28, 1999 Cleveland, Ohio Adam Gruber, 14, above, and John Borowski, Benjamin Balducci and Andy Napier, all 15, were white students planning a rampage at their mostly black school. It was to end, one of the boys' friends said, in a suicidal shoot-out with police, with one survivor to "bask in the glory." Officials were tipped off to the plot by another student's mother...
...want to measure people on something they've done, not on supposedly innate abilities," he says. "I don't trust the whole idea of innateness." Fine, but what about those cool kids who would rather write concertos or build rockets than cram for a quiz on Grover Cleveland's second term? What about the bright rural Arkansas kid whose school is so screwed up that her grades mean nothing? Lemann says those students could still submit their perfect 1600 SAT score, since the test would simply be optional - although in his perfect world, the SAT would be replaced by other...
...almost hear the pitch for Fisher's screenplay, currently in production and now fleshed out in his memoir: Dickens in Cleveland! The Color Purple, but true and male and set in the 1960s! The facts of his life have a movie-of-the-week ring: relentlessly abusive foster care; redemption through military service; and irrepressible intellect. But detailed accounting distinguishes the tale, and Fisher's searing, luminous portrait of his childhood transcends the familiar, as does his retroactive (and likely hard-won) tenderness toward the boy no one else loved...