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Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Above Blows Chicago Children Dominican Republic Drive Exuberance Fans Figure Floor Four He His Kisses Lake Love Mother Poverty Republic Rising Shore Wife

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One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Adopted America Baseball Come Following He Late Latin Latin America Model Models Now One-Third Others Players Professional Professional Baseball Puerto Puerto Rican Rican Role Role Models Whom

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In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: African-American Angeles Atlanta Black Considered He Hero Hispanic Hispanics Label Large Larger Latino Los Los Angeles Man Miami Often Population Rejected Robbing

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Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Brand Business Business School Call Her Herself Known Name Names Only Oprah Professor Professors School Well Well Known

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Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Best Bring Cincinnati Humidity Notwithstanding Out Seems Summer

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In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Cold Overhead Pedestrian Protect Sky Snow Walks Winter

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Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Ballet Galleries Groups Many Museums Opera Support Symphony Theater

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Many visitors to Chicago know the Loop, the shops on the Magnificent Mile, and the Museum Campus. Meanwhile, much of the bustle is in the developing neighborhoods around the Loop: North, South and West.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Around Campus Chicago Developing Know Loop Magnificent Many Meanwhile Mile Much Museum Neighborhoods North Shops South Visitors West

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Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Every Headlights Pedestrian Road Scandal Stumble Who

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It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists here have come from Europe to the capital of culture in the Alleghenies.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Capital Come Consider Culture Direct Europe Flights Here London Many May Paris Pittsburgh Surprise Tourists

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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