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...COLUMBUS: After 19 months in the top job, Robert Massey abruptly resigned as president and CEO of CompuServe. In a written statement from H&R Block, which owns some 80 percent of the online service, Block CEO Frank Salizzoni said that Massey left to pursue other interests, and said he will assume Massey?s responsibilities until a successor is found. Block discouraged speculation that Massey's departure was related to this Thursday?s release of CompuServe?s third quarter financial results, which are expected to be grim. On the service's website, Massey notes that 1996 was a trying time...
...Remove Columbus Day: The true symbolism of Columbus Day is denounced by many, and ignored by almost everyone else. A significant portion of the American people find the holiday downright offensive...
...COLUMBUS, Ohio: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. says it's "on your side." But according to a slew of lawsuits and the testimony of at least six Nationwide agents, it depends which side you're on. Residents in seven states have filed lawsuits accusing the company of "redlining," in other words refusing to insure people who live in certain undesirable locations. "They wrote out zip codes where agents weren't allowed to pursue business," said Shanna Smith, executive director of the National Fair Housing Alliance, which has been investigating Nationwide since 1991. Those addresses were almost exclusively neighborhoods dominated by blacks...
...clinching 34-10 victory over the Jets last December he made seven catches. If all this sounds more like a mature player than a rookie, it's because Glenn has had to do a lot of growing up in his 22 years. When he was 13 and living in Columbus, Ohio, his mother Denetta was beaten to death. He had never seen his father, so for months he was passed around among aunts and uncles until the parents of a schoolmate finally took him in. He was given a curfew, a newspaper route--and a new life. "They settled...
...publisher Larry Flynt incited the guardians of public pudency. City D.A.s, state attorneys general, Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell--all were so vexed by Flynt's verbal and pictorial provocations, they just had to sue him. One offended reader took a few rifle shots at the Great Satan of Columbus, Ohio, forever paralyzing some of Flynt's favorite body parts. The bumptious pornographer made friends with Jimmy Carter's evangelist sister, went nuts on painkillers and won a crucial First Amendment ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. All in all, a wonderful life...