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Little serious business gets conducted because of it, Cincinnati City Council reschedules its meetings around it -- so, among other things, one of its members wearing top hat and tails can push a peanut cart through downtown -- and the enormous array of red clothing that gets worn on the day has prompted generations of reporters to overwork the phrase "sea of red" in describing it.

It is to the natives what bullfighting is to the citizens of Madrid, and is approached with the same passionate enthusiasm and subjected to the same universally expert consideration.''

When the public responded enthusiastically to "Banny's" celebrations, a tradition was born -- and Bancroft had positioned himself to be dubbed, as he is by the authors of "Opening Day," the "father" of Cincinnati's Opening Day.

That desperation might be felicitous enough to accomplish what mere common sense has not achieved by now:

Klemz is the metal preparation and buffing guy.

Monsieur Kerry is under considerable pressure now to tear himself away from ski slope and sick bed to say, exactly and precisely, what and how he proposes to take charge of the war in Iraq and how he would array his nuances, niceties and moderations for the battle that, like it or not, will be the lot of American presidents stretching from here to the horizon.

Vice President Dick Cheney presented Chinese leaders with new evidence about the scope of North Korea's nuclear program and warned that "time is not necessarily on our side" in continuing negotiations, a senior Bush administration official said Wednesday.

The visit was the most extensive exchange between the Bush administration and top Chinese leaders since the Communist Party handed power to Hu in late 2002. Cheney first came to China with former President Gerald Ford in 1975, but had not visited during the decadelong economic boom that has transformed Beijing's economy and urban contours.

That report quoted Bush administration and Asian officials as saying that Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist who has acknowledged selling weapons technology around the world, claims to have seen three nuclear devices in North Korea five years ago.

"What is new is what we have learned about their capability," the senior administration official said.

"I wanted to show cooperation so I carried uniforms for them to help my family to hide," the former accountant for Air Rwanda says in a low voice.

In the same breath she adds that her husband and university-going daughter might not otherwise be alive today and that she considers her incarceration an injustice.

Said Democrats insist on politicizing the events of 9/11 in order to discredit the Bush administration, despite the fact that the Commission's charge is "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks."

(The early returns indicate, for instance, that President Bush's "favorable" rating for how his administration handled the al Qaeda threat prior to 9/11 shot up from an eight-point deficit to a nine-point advantage immediately after Dr. Rice testified.

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