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...depression when the outbreaks began to ease. "I looked at it this way: 95% of the time I didn't have herpes. I worked it out and came to terms with it." For others, progress depends on a change of attitude, from victim to manager. Says Marilyn Anderson of Cleveland Heights: "I have this problem, yes, but I feel I have it under control and I can handle it mainly by taking care of my body and my mind. People who have herpes shouldn't downgrade themselves. You have to be positive...
When the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain threatened two years ago to fold its longtime flagship Cleveland Press, at which E.W. Scripps launched his empire in 1878, Joseph E. Cole, 67, a Democratic Party activist and millionaire merchant, stepped in. Cole insisted that a local owner could better compete with the Newhouse-owned rival Plain Dealer to keep Cleveland from becoming a one-newspaper town. With the same confidence that had lifted him from poverty as the youngest of a peddler's eight children, Cole spent $1 million acquiring the Press and an estimated $18 million to $20 million sustaining...
James Fallows, Washington editor of the Atlantic, at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland: "We are on the verge of embracing a second-language culture. I am referring of course to Spanish that endures beyond a first generation to a second and third. For an individual, mastery of many languages is one of the sweetest rewards of scholarship. But for a society, separate linguistics seem almost always to drive a wedge between groups of people. We can cite Switzerland, perhaps, as a nation that has managed to contain these linguistic tensions. But almost every other example, from Quebec to the Basque...
Demagoguery is a staple of boxing and a specialty of King's, a wild-maned former Cleveland numbers runner who served four years in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing an associate. King got into boxing with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass...
...Cleveland 7, Minnesota...