Word: ohio
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...blame the guy. If the choice were to go down as either the publisher of cheap porn or a First Amendment activist, you'd be trying to get arrested too. So Larry Flynt returned to Cincinnati to martyr himself again. The Ohio city, where Flynt was arrested on obscenity charges in 1977, is called Censornati by free-speech crusaders, and is one of the few smut-free zones in the country. Enforcement is so strict that residents had to drive to Kentucky to see Paula Jones naked in Penthouse. Trying to catch the eye of the Cincinnati police, Flynt handed...
Tomes has told this story, about the first of what became a string of epiphanies, hundreds of times, and always with the same sense of genuine astonishment. Until that moment he had never thought of himself as a particularly religious man. Born in a middle-class home in Akron, Ohio, and raised in Evanston, he stood out as a gifted artist and athlete. He received Jesuit training at Loyola Academy before attending Notre Dame, where he studied English and philosophy and received a bachelor's degree, then two years later a master's in counseling and guidance...
Mitchell Johnson, 13, was "shocked" at what the press wrote about him, so he wanted to explain publicly why he and Andrew Golden, 11, shot up their Arkansas school, killing four classmates and a teacher. So says Tom Furth, the Ohio lawyer hired by the boy's father. Last Friday, ABC's Barbara Walters was prepared to air Mitch Johnson's version of the day of the shooting, as related by Furth, on "20/20." But that afternoon the piece was abruptly dropped...
...Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Macedonia, Ohio, you'll have to cross a picket line. Six young McDonald's employees got so angry over management's alleged rudeness and refusal to grant leave over Easter that they launched the first-ever strike against the company in the U.S. "Trade unions have never gone after McDonald's because its workforce is so transitory -- it's mostly composed of kids," says TIME correspondent Edward Barnes. But while the nation's sunny economic prospects may embolden service sector labor, the major threat facing McDonald's in the three-day-old strike...
...author is Burtt Professor of Psychology and Political Science, Ohio State University