Word: fullers
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...Channel 5, it's a necessary disclaimer. Talk-show host Jerry Springer was an anchor at the station after serving as mayor from 1977 to 1978; current officeholder Charlie Luken quit his job as a WLWT anchor to run for the post. And one day last June, anchor Courtis Fuller read the news at noon, handed Jobe his resignation and jumped into the race against Luken...
...most important mayoral contest in decades. The city is still trying to recover from the riots that broke out last April after an unarmed African-American man named Timothy Thomas was shot and killed by a white police officer. Now Luken, who is white, is trying to fend off Fuller, an African American, who sees the race as a referendum on Luken's handling of the unrest. (Cincinnati, pop. 331,000, is 43% black...
...Sept. 11 open primary. The candidates who will square off in a Nov. 6 election are expected to be Luken, 50, a Democrat with a $240,000 war chest and backing among the city's Republican business elite (the G.O.P. didn't even field a candidate), and Fuller, 44, the novice choice of the Charter Committee, a local third party...
...have great respect for Charlie," Fuller said, after gently attacking Luken for mishandling race relations. Fuller recalled the riots' final spark: a city-council meeting on April 9, at which residents shouted for an explanation of the Thomas shooting. Luken walked out as the meeting degenerated into a screaming match. "I would not have walked out," Fuller told the audience of 300. "To walk out, I think, took the lid off the pot." Luken responded that he had left because he had appointments to keep. Within hours, crowds had started rioting...
...road to recovery in the movie Bounce. Maybe it wasn't all acting? Last week square-jawed Pearl Harbor star BEN AFFLECK revealed he had entered rehab for an alcohol problem. Said publicist David Pollick: "Ben is a self-aware and smart man who has decided that a fuller life awaits him without alcohol. He has chosen to seek out professional assistance and is committed to traveling a healthier road with the support of his family, friends and fans." And food, folks and fun, along with additional alliterative assurances at the Malibu drying-out center of choice, Promises. That...