the pope

i always like the concept of playing the last exhibition game closer to home. Though with the upper midwest's weather at the turn of april, the players probably want to spend as much time as possible down south

^but what about the HNIC?

finally, someone got it.

or the cost of 670?

well i can hardly call it a "destination store" if your trip entails the baja fresh and the record store. Or look at it this way, "what's the point of having a destination store" if only to get people to the baja fresh also? Detroit's IKEA is having this problem. Local Business in the Ford Road corridor (big boxes included) have seen a DECREASE in sales due mainly to a) IKEA b) Ikea's impact upon traffic c) people typically only go the area for Ikea, and that's it.

math, how often do you spend time at the stores surrounding Pittsburgh's ikea?

But if I'm not mistaken, Houston's single 7.5 mile light-rail line has a higher ridership than any of the RTA rail routes. without knowing anything whatsoever about the specifics of houston. I do know that commuting patterns don't change overnight.

ha, hugh downs wrote the foreword.

sigh.... East liverpool?

would you say that the anticipated open date is "right on TARGET"? hardy har har

did they have the fabled coin-flip yet?

if anyone really cares, the Lions won the competition for most players on the IR, the browns however won the competition for most excuses.

yeah, what's wrong with the name, "university circle"?

well regardless of personal taste preferences, an ikea does not a city make.

i'm still never going to figure out the fascination with ikea.

ow, my brain.

^seriously. oh, and just to make you mad, larchmere is poo-hole.

did somebody have a nervous breakdown? ala greinke with the royals last year?

tressel should have voted Michigan #2 in the coaches poll

I lived car free in shaker square, university circle and Coventry. Never had any problems going downtown, or between them. That's just me.

great mayday, thanks for the can of worms

i've always believed the river is the diving line....

i'm a YP on the East Side. I've always believed that I should live on the West Side because that's where most of my "like-minded" associates are. The only other thing the East Side is good for is a gluttony of college students. But being past that stage in my life, I keep leaning towards a residence on the west side (or at least downtown)

New fund-raising chief at Case Bruce Loessin, who has shepherded hundreds of millions of dollars in donations to the Cleveland Clinic as the lead fund-raiser there, is leaving for Case Western Reserve University. Loessin’s new employer is a familiar one. He was in charge of university relations and fund raising at Case from 1991 to 2001... -- Janet Okoben, [email protected] and Sarah Treffinger, [email protected]

looks like my house would have been demolished twice over!