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...Chicago Bears football training camp; the Bears' defensive coach called the overstuffed Refrigerator, who has a four-year contract worth $1.3 million, "a wasted draft choice and a waste of money." Other news: road repairs in Duluth, Minn.; the annual reunion of the 450-member Robinson family in Cleveland; the opening of a shopping center in St. Louis, where a time capsule received contributions of old draft cards, snapshots of pet dogs, and a jar of Vaseline. Birds died from botulism in Oregon, and a 90-lb. baby boy was born to Radha, a rhinoceros living in Los Angeles, after...
DIED. VERNE MEISNER, 66, Wisconsin's polka king, known for his melodic Slovenian, or Cleveland-style, sound; of melanoma; in Milwaukee. In the Badger State, where polka is the official dance, Meisner started performing at age 11, gaining fans at taverns and festivals with a boost from a local disc jockey, Fritz the Plumber. Meisner recorded dozens of albums and wrote 60 songs, including the hit Memories of Vienna...
...easy to predict which sibling will take on the job. Most frequently, says Cleveland University sociologist Sarah Matthews, the caregiver is the female child who lives closest and the one who is single or has the fewest career or family responsibilities. Sometimes a son will take on that role, but it is rarely a group effort. Less understood are the underlying psychological reasons that a particular adult child steps up to embrace--or gets stuck with--a parent's late-life needs. But, clearly, the history of family relationships--which child was more in synch with which parent, which siblings...
...fact, in 1976 he landed a job on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s campaign in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat from New York. The Catholic son of a sanitation worker and a truck driver, Russert had already worked his way through John Carroll University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law as a sometime cab driver and pizza...
TIME Since you have to be in Cleveland by 9 a.m. tomorrow, I take it this is where you'll be sleeping tonight...