Sunday, February 14, 1999
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Yale Law School dean to speak here
The dean of Yale Law School will be the featured guest at the 1999 Robert S. Marx Lecture and Law Review Symposium at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Anthony Kronman will take part in the symposium, to be held Feb. 23 in Room 114 of the College of Law. The Yale dean is known as a contemporary legal philosopher.
He is to present a lecture “The Art of Rhetoric,” defending the use of legal rhetoric as an aid to the autonomy of law. He will then take part in a symposium panel.
To register, contact Peggy Ramey at 556-0063, on Monday. Ohio Continuing Legal Education credit is available for the symposium.
Kayak adventurer to tell of travels
“Worldwide Wandering of a Kayak Adventurer” will be the topic of a free program 7:30 p.m. March 1 at the Raymond Walters College auditorium, 9555 Plainfield Road, Blue Ash.
The speaker will be Joel Meier, a kayaker and member of the department of recreation and park administration at Indiana University.
His talk — on kayaking in Belize, Costa Rica, and the Russian Far East — is sponsored by the Sierra Club Miami Group.
Easter Seals under new executive
A former executive with Easter Seals Virginia is leading the organization in Greater Cincinnati.
Jeff White has been named president and chief executive officer of Easter Seals Southwestern Ohio. He assumed the post on Dec. 1.
Mr. White had been the director of development, executive vice president of development and chief operating officer at the Virginia operation. Under his direction, Easter Seals Virginia started a $4 million Camp Easter Seals, as well as running a capital campaign and endowment fund.
“His experience is sure to take our organization to some very exciting new levels,” said Gail Anderson, chairwoman of the Southwestern Ohio board. Easter Seals is a nonprofit, health service agency dedicated to enhancing the lives of children and adults with disabilities.
Mr. White has a bachelor's degree in business management and economics and a master's in business administration. He and his family are living in Florence.
Anti-flu pill maker seeks testers here
Amid the busiest part of Cincinnati's flu season, a pharmaceutical company has started recruiting volunteers to test a pill that might actually treat the virus-caused misery. Interested volunteers, ages 13-80, should call 800-I-GOT-FLU as soon as they notice symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, chills or sweats, headache, fatigue and body aches.
The pill, called GS4104, is made by Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. The pill is designed to be effective against all common flu strains by targeting a protein found on the virus' outer shell.
Ex-Rep. Oakar settles libel suit with paper
CLEVELAND — Former U.S. Rep. Mary Rose Oakar and the Plain Dealer have settled her libel lawsuit about articles in 1992 concerning the investigation of the House Post Office.
Terms were confidential, but Ms. Oakar said Saturday it involved a financial settlement.
The articles were based primarily on information obtained from confidential sources.
The Plain Dealer reporters were told that Ms. Oakar had resigned from the task force investigating abuses in the House Post Office following allegations that employees associated with Ms. Oakar were getting paid without doing work at the office.
The task force concluded that there was no evidence to support the allegation.
The newspaper reported Friday: “In light of this finding, The Plain Dealer recognizes that Ms. Oakar was rightfully upset that erroneous information supplied to it was published in The Plain Dealer.
Fliers being posted with hate messages AKRON — Police are investigating the distribution of hundreds of fliers with racial epithets that have shown up on car windshields and utility poles.
The leaflets — some attacking blacks, Jews and homosexuals — have shown up in Akron and Stow this month. They mention a coming race war and give state and national phone numbers for the Ku Klux Klan. One leaflet warns child molesters that they are being watched.
Police said there have been at least nine versions of the flier. The leaflets have shown up at two Akron high schools and the University of Akron, said Akron police Detective Stan Smith.
“Every other day, I'm receiving fliers from either officers or citizens,” he said.
Detective Smith said several officers have seen individuals who may be posting the fliers, but no arrests have been made.
Judge urges man not to serve as own defense XENIA — A judge has urged a man defending himself in a murder trial to consider letting attorneys handle his case when it resumes Tuesday.
James Taylor Sr. represented himself in the first three days of his trial on charges he tried to shoot his estranged wife during a Valentine's Day dance last year and then fatally shot the couple who had taken her in.
Although Greene County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Rose has allowed Mr. Taylor, 68, to handle his death-penalty case, he urged him on Friday to reconsider and let two standby attorneys defend him.
The judge told Mr. Taylor that he has “no idea what sense can be made of what you are attempting to prove.”
Mr. Taylor refused.
Judge Rose has repeatedly interrupted Mr. Taylor during the trial, helping him frame questions and explaining courtroom procedures.
Mr. Taylor has pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity to two counts of aggravated murder and other charges.
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Days in the Sun
GOPers had better be ready for election battles
Impeachment trial may follow DeWine
Wedding cake goes to the dogs
Worth, not birth, matters to family of the year
Thou shalt not pray
Carl Ruh looks back and ahead
Foreigners often get more aid at Ohio colleges
New electoral plan stirs activists
No evidence backs move to oust police chief
Photo staffers win Ohio honors
Retired P&G VP back in Cincinnati after collapse
Students try to 'Erase the Hate'
Symmes trustees list priorities
Talawanda may get new high school
Town forum focuses on jail concerns
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