Gods of Baseball must be crazy and other ponderings
A provocative essay era column attacks the Minnesota Twins as undeserving World Series participants and derides the Metrodome. It contrasts Tigers fans with a hostile take on indoor baseball and mocks Twins fans and their arena. It then honors two late women of achievement Clare Booth Luce and Eleanor M Johnson, contrasting their legacies.
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Mount Olympus
Detroit Tigers
Minnesota Twins
Detroit
Tigers
Twins
St. Louis Browns
Browns
Hubert H. Humphrey
Metrodome
Minnesota
Clare Booth Luce
Vanity Fair Magazine
Life Magazine
Congress
Italy
Brazil
Henry Luce
Time-Life Empire
Hawaii
Washington
Eleanor M. Johnson
Weekly Reader
Ms. Luce
Eleanor Johnson
Casinos Cited For Letting 17 Year Old Gamble In Atlantic City
State regulators charged five casinos for allowing Debra Kim Cohen to gamble at age 17. Her father, Leonard Cohen, said she used bank funds and gifts from a Sweet 16 party to gamble and lose thousands. Attorney General Cary Edwards noted failures to verify age and to monitor play.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Debra Kim Cohen
Leonard Cohen
State Division of Gaming Enforcement
Cohen
Cary Edwards
Edwards
Conflict guidelines to reach judge nominating panels
Iowa judicial nominating commissions will receive conflict of interest guidelines for the first time. A complaint questions whether a nominee tied to a commission member creates a conflict in Kristin Hibbs’s bid for the 6th Judicial District seat. The advisory handbook urges disqualification of relatives or coworkers and training is planned to adopt such policies nationwide.
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Iowa
Terry Branstad
Iowa City
6Th Judicial District
Kristin Hibbs
Jay Stein
6Th District Nominating Commission
Hibbs
Tom Hobart
Branstad
Harold Swailes
Belle Plaine
Stein
William Eads
6Th District Commission
State Judicial Nominating Commission
Becky Reznicek
Supreme Court
Arthur McGiverin
State Commission
Reznicek
Dick Vohs
West wife on trial for attempted murder in Iowa case
In Scott County District Court Cedar Rapids officers and a surgeon testified that Roger West’s gunshot wounds did not appear self inflicted. The trial, moved from Linn County, centers on Margaret West accused of shooting her husband at their Davenport home on February 1.
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Davenport
Roger West
Scott County
Cedar Rapids
West
Margaret
Linn County
Center St. NE
Mount Vernon
Denver Dillard
Jerry Potter
Potter
Patrick Chaney
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Chaney
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids Gazette, Inc
P.O
Cedar Rapids
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