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...Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, ''I found myself wondering, How wealthy...
...years. Each day's headlines had us outraged or applauding. With each speech, Clinton won us over, but then lost us in a cloud of dust as the next unsavory episode unfolded. We never had a chance to go into restful, neutral gear. Maybe we never will. NANCY BAKER Columbus, Ohio...
...sophisticated, state-of-the-art U.S. submarine could not detect a 190-ft. Japanese fishing boat before surfacing [WORLD, Feb. 26], how is the proposed U.S. missile-defense system going to work? The Greeneville flunked preschool; can our military handle the postgraduate world of Star Wars? VIRGINIA L. COPESTAKES Columbus...
DIED. JAMES A. RHODES, 91, Ohio's longest-serving Governor, who in May 1970 dispatched the National Guard to Kent State University to quell anti-Vietnam protests; in Columbus, Ohio. In Rhodes' 16-year tenure, Ohio's economy and public university system flourished, but history will always note the fateful May afternoon when soldiers killed four students and injured nine...
...like Columbus," he said. "I didn't know where I was heading, where I had gotten to when I arrived, or where I had been when I got back...