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IN LIFE
Three holidays,
Northside ‘Great House’ restored
Up Front
Must reads inside
today’s Enquirer
Judge’s sentence: Church or jail
By Dan Horn
Enquirer staff writer
‘24’ is back,
and Jack Bauer
is showing strain
Kiefer Sutherland (above)
returns in a two-night,
four-part “24” marathon
that kicks off Sunday. In
the fifth season, fictional
fed Jack Bauer is starting
to exhibit a little stress.
LIFE E1
Comet dust heads
for Earth landing
The space capsule Stardust is due to return Sunday, bearing millions of
pieces of dust, some collected from the comet
Wild 2 some 242 million
miles from Earth.
HEALTH/SCIENCE A12
Tipoff looks at BC,
which is struggling
In Tipoff, columnist Dustin
Dow focuses on Boston
College and coach Al Skinner. The Eagles are off to
an 0-3 start in the Atlantic
Coast Conference.
SPORTS C12
Servatii’s replaces
Virginia Bakery
A Servatii Pastry Shop and
Deli will replace the Virginia Bakery in Clifton.
The Gottenbusch family
plans to open its 10th bakery by mid-March.
BUSINESS D1
Live from Sin City,
it’s Miss America
Miss America contestants
arrive in Las Vegas today,
and for the first time in the
pageant’s 85-year history,
the winner will be
crowned outside Atlantic
City, N.J. The finale airs
next Saturday.
NATION A2
COMING
with me. But you have to understand that you are at the
whim and authority of a black
judge.”
That’s when Mallory offered church as an alternative
sentence, an option he said
might broaden Haines’ cultural awareness.
“If you want to get out of
jail, you’re going to have to
raise your black consciousness,” the judge said.
Mallory said he was concerned about maintaining a
separation between church
and state, so he asked Haines
whether the option would offend his beliefs. Haines said
he was not a church-goer, but
would like to give it a try.
“Absolutely,” he said when
given the choice.
His lawyer, Dennis Deters,
said his client told him that
the sentence might do him
some good, and assistant
prosecutor Kirstin Fullen
raised no objection.
She said Haines, 36, was arrested Nov. 26 in Newtown after threatening cab driver David Wilson and Wilson’s wife.
Fullen said the intoxicated
Haines threatened to punch
Wilson, used racial slurs and
said he hated black people.
Mallory told Haines he
must attend six consecutive
Sunday services, starting this
Sunday, and get the minister
to sign a church program to
prove he was there.
Wilson said he hoped the
sentence would work, but he
would have preferred Haines
serve his 30 days.
“Church don’t change everybody,” he said.
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Girl Scouts hit the trail – or office – for annual cookie sale
TIME TO CHOOSE:
THIN MINTS OR … ?
By John Johnston
Enquirer staff writer
T
hey’re on our doorsteps. They’re in our
offices. Soon, they’ll
be strategically positioned outside stores.
They’re Girl Scouts. And
parents of Girl Scouts.
Those order forms they’re
clutching? That’s a sign that
we’re in the thick of the
Girl Scout cookie-selling
season.
No doubt they’ll be out in
full force in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky
this holiday weekend.
While initial order-taking
will end in a week or two
(depending on which Girl
Scout council is involved),
Scouts will then set up shop
outside stores such as Kroger and Wal-Mart on weekends until March 12.
You might not be asked
to buy Girl Scout cookies.
Yeah, right. And the Bengals are going to the Super
Bowl.
The Great Rivers Girl
Scout Council (which covers Southwest Ohio and
Southeastern Indiana) has a
goal of 2,058,528 boxes sold
this year. That’s enough to
put a cookie in the mouth of
every man, woman and
child in the 15-county metropolitan area, as defined by
the U.S. Census. The goal
in Kentucky’s Licking Valley Girl Scout Council is
427,606 boxes.
High 33°
Low 21°
A.M.
flurries
COMPLETE FORECAST: B14
INDEX
7 sections, 165th year, No. 280
Abby .............. E2 Lotteries ......... B2
Business ........ D1 Movies ........ E3-4
Comics ........... E5 Obituaries .... B11
Editorial ....... B12 Sports ............ C1
Kids’ Corner . B14 TV .................. E2
Classified ................................... G1-30
First Run Classified ........................ A12
Copyright, 2006, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Portions of
today’s Enquirer
were printed on
recycled paper
Brett Haines
(right), with
lawyer Dennis Deters,
told Judge
William Mallory Jr.
(above) that
he’s not a
church-goer, but
would attend a black
church.
The Enquirer/Jeff Swinger
Colleen Harmeyer places her order for Girl Scout cookies from Brownie Lauren
Aug (center), 7, as her sister Kelly Aug, 5, tags along in their Cleves neighborhood. Area Scouts have a goal of selling almost 2.5 million boxes this year.
We love Girl Scout cookies
Overwhelmingly, local adults buy Girl Scout cookies every year, and very few feel pressured to do so.
How often do you buy?
How many boxes do you buy each year? Who you do buy from?
Do you ever feel pressured to buy?
4-6: Children or children Neighborhood kids: No:
Every year:
Every couple 1-3:
34% of relatives:
29% 74%
70%
of years: 54%
29%
13%
Children
Not sure:
Not sure:
of friends:
1%
1%
11%
Someone
else: 2%
Children of
Not
7-10: Children at stores:
co-workers: Yes:
sure:
Never:
Less often: More:
9% 10%
19% 25%
1%
8%
9% 3%
Source: SurveyUSA telephone poll of 500 adults in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, conducted Jan. 12. Margin of error: –4.1 to
The Enquirer
4.7 percentage points.
Hospital
may quit
Alliance
Inside, A8
m No surprise
about what’s top
seller.
m No Girl Scouts
around you? We
tell you where to
call.
m About 51 cents
per box goes to the
local troop.
m Key cookie sale
dates.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Health Alliance
Christ Hospital, one of the
city’s oldest and best-known
hospitals, wants to pull out of
the Health Alliance of Greater
Cincinnati – a move that could
threaten the fiscal health of
the region’s biggest health
system and biggest employer.
As executives try to iron
out their differences behind
closed doors, both sides say
there will be no immediate effect on patient care.
If Christ Hospital pulls out,
the alliance would lose the sizable revenue and profits it
generates, which could harm
the fiscal viability of the entire
group.
As an independent hospital, Christ Hospital would become a competitor for healthcare workers. The quality of
care at Christ and the other
five alliance hospitals could
shift significantly depending
on where top employees go.
Officials on both sides of
the dispute are not saying
The Health Alliance consists of
these hospitals: Christ, University, Jewish, Fort Hamilton, St.
Luke East and St. Luke West.
Additions include the Drake
Center rehabilitation hospital, a
hospital planned for University
Pointe in West Chester and a
mental health center to be built
in Mason.
m Palmer to get
$24 million even if
he never plays
again. C1
Online: Go to Cincinnati.Com to see
the Steelers’ Who
Dey video spoof.
By Mark Curnutte
Enquirer staff writer
As it turns out, the Bengals’ playoff
loss Sunday to Pittsburgh was only
the beginning of a really bad week for
the team, which has hardly had a
chance to enjoy the afterglow of its
most successful season in 15 years.
In defeat, the Bengals lost goldenarm quarterback Carson Palmer to a
knee injury that his surgeon initially
called “devastating” – before back-
tracking – and might jeopardize Palmer’s ability to return in time for the
start of next season. What followed:
m A Web site reported that gifted
wide receiver Chad Johnson allegedly
got into a halftime altercation with two
coaches. Although Johnson called a
news conference to deny anything
happened, the report has gained increasing degrees of credibility with
each passing day.
m Former Bengals quarterback
Boomer Esiason, a CBS Sports NFL
much else about the decision.
“We want to keep these discussions internal,” said Gail
Myers, vice president of communications and marketing
for the alliance, the region’s
largest employer with more
than 13,000 employees.
Myers said alliance officials don’t feel Christ’s board
meets the criteria set out under the system’s operating agreement for leaving the network.
She wouldn’t specify what
those criteria are.
WHAT IT COULD MEAN TO . . .
The patients
The employees
A big question would be
whether insurers with Health
Alliance contracts will make
new contracts with Christ.
Some patients might discover
they aren’t covered at Christ.
Some might face higher fees.
One possible advantage: Christ
would be free to make improvements immediately.
m Doctors: Many doctors
would maintain admitting privileges at multiple, competing
hospitals. Some might be
forced to choose sides.
m Employees: More than
3,000 at Christ work for the alliance. If they stay, pay, health
coverage and retirement plans
would have to be restructured.
IN LOCAL: ‘Hopeful that issues can be resolved.’ B1
ONLINE: See Cincinnati.Com for continuing coverage.
Bengals’ offseason gets off to bad start
In Sports
The Enquirer/Gary Landers
Losing Christ could
imperil group’s finances
Enquirer/WCPO poll
After the new owners of
the Cincinnati Reds complete acquisition of the
team this week, they will
rely on the business model
of the St. Louis Cardinals.
WEATHER
A judge gave Brett Haines a
choice Friday: Go to jail or go
to church.
The Anderson Township
man, convicted of disorderly
conduct, immediately chose
six weeks of Sunday worship
over 30 days in the Hamilton
County Justice Center.
But there’s a catch.
Haines, who was accused
of using racial slurs and
threatening a black cab driver, must attend services at a
predominantly black church.
“It seems readily apparent
to me that you don’t like black
people,” Judge William Mallory Jr. told Haines. “That’s OK
Man accused of racial slurs, threatening cabbie
agrees to attend predominantly black service
See COOKIES, Page A8
SUNDAY
Gizmos accessorize
your iPod
commentator, has said that if the story
involving Johnson is true – and Esiason said he believes it is – Bengals
coach Marvin Lewis has lost a measure of control of his team and needs
to regain it.
m Lewis drew mild criticism from
Steelers coach Bill Cowher and his
quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, in
response to Lewis’ postgame verbal
jab at Roethlisberger.
See BENGALS, Page A8
German leader’s 1st visit
Bush rejects request
to close Guantanamo
President Bush told Germany’s new
leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, in their
first meeting that the United States would
keep its prison at Guantanamo Bay open,
saying the center is “a necessary part of
protecting the American people.” The two
called their getting-to-know-you session
Friday “candid.” Bush said the two have
much in common.
NATION/WORLD A2