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...equestrians compete both for team prizes and individual honors. Junior Captain Ann Carmen came in fourth place in national competition in Cleveland, Ohio this year...
...AMONG THOSE WHO HELPED CHARLES KEATING BRING about the 1989 collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan, lawyers in the Cleveland firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue were pivotal. Without admitting actual guilt, the gigantic firm has agreed to pay a record $51 million to the Resolution Trust Corporation, the federal body managing the assets of failed S&Ls. According to the RTC, Jones Day attorneys -- hired by Keating in 1986 -- were well aware that Keating was practicing financial and legal legerdemain to conceal Lincoln's serious problems. Yet Jones Day raised no alarm. The resulting failure cost taxpayers at least...
...star-crossed Cleveland Indians, a young team that has not won a pennant since 1954, recover from the tragic death of two pitchers in a late- March boating accident? (Yes, if there is any justice in the game...
...home. They are embracing such cutbacks not simply to slash up to 40% of payroll costs, though that might be inspiration enough. They are also freeing themselves from inconvenient labor and equal-employment requirements. Says Ronald Cohen, a senior partner of Cohen & Co., a regional accounting firm based in Cleveland, Ohio: "You don't need to worry about the incredible compliance problems and potential litigation if you fire someone." Using disposable workers also means that companies rarely have to train them. Moreover, getting rid of such workers is easy when they don't measure up. Says Robert Uhlaner, senior vice...
...Graffman, a dazzling stylist whose troubles began when he first sprained the fourth finger on his right hand while playing an unresponsive instrument in Berlin, has been a left- handed pianist since 1979. Fleisher, a towering performer whose 1958-62 cycle of Beethoven concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra remains a pinnacle of modern recordings, first noticed a loss of feeling in his right hand at the peak of his career in 1964. A year later, at age 38, he ! was incapable of using it at the keyboard, and he ceased performing his full repertoire...