Word: clevelandism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AFRICAN AMERICANS, the first week of April has often been a time when their heroes have died. In 1950 it was blood-plasma pioneer Dr. Charles R. Drew. In 1968 it was Martin Luther King Jr. Last week it was Carl Stokes of Cleveland, the first black big-city mayor, and Ron Brown, Bill Clinton's Secretary of Commerce, who at 54 perished doing what he always did best: trying to make deals...
...number came in, Suponcic interrogated the caller and learned that the councilman's phone number was printed at the bottom of some pictures of naked women that had been posted to a Usenet newsgroup called alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, which, naturally, Suponcic had never heard of. But he had a friend in Cleveland who was something of a computer buff. So the next day the two of them jacked into Usenet and spent three hours sifting through about 7,400 files on alt. binaries.etc...
...leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit, we believe we've driven a stake through the heart of La Cosa Nostra," said...
...also has an appetite for tough assignments. On graduating from Brown University in 1981, Pooley headed for East Germany and began reporting on anticommunist dissident groups. Although he had no affiliation with any news organization, papers back home, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Providence Journal, picked up his dispatches...
Memorial services have been previously held in Cleveland, Ohio and Washington...