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SPORTS: Henman faces Enqvist today in Masters Series final, CI CMMTI ENHJIR COPYRIGHT, 2000, THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FINAL NEWSSPORTS $1.50 SUNDAY, AUGUST 13, 2000 1 El SUNDAY Seven years in the making, Paul Brown Stadium almost didn't happen. Deadlocked battles over money, location and power threatened to kill the project and send the Bengals to another city. Yet each time someone found a way out. SPORTS 1 Reds 3, CubsO 00 --s'" Game details, CI Dems expect own bounce Delegates' advice: Point to boom time By Howard Wilkinson and Patrick Crowley The Cincinnati Enquirer The Democratic delegates from Ohio and Kentucky who are gathering in Los Angeles aren't complaining about going last A week ago, they were watching on the sidelines as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney came roaring out of a Republican National Convention in Philadelphia that while -V or- The Associated Press Reds catcher Jason LaRue hit two home runs in Saturday's win over the Cubs.

His big day at the plate broke a slump he was in since being called up from Triple-A Louisville on Aug. 1. Story, C5 short on substance, was a four-day, feelgood lovefest that gave the GOP ticket a giant boost in the polls. Barring disaster, the delegates who convene Inside Two-page convention preview. A16-17 NATION Loretta Young dies of cancer i Loretta I built a Stadium lUUIIg, LlfC elegant Oscar-winning actress who charmed audiences i' i.

By Dan Klepal The Cincinnati Enquirer Young a career that extended from silent movies to TV, died Saturday of ovarian cancer. She was 87. Al 1 ike Brown walked into a meeting, but it felt more like an BUSINESS Path to success starts on Main St. Signs of Main Street Ventures' popularity are clear the crowded monthly networking events, the full meeting calendars, the unanswered e-mail. John Byczkowski reports on the Over-the-Rhine incubator organization in his New Economy column.

Dl ambush. Political and business leaders were lined up against him in force on that sunny February day in 1997 a rare show of unity. The controversy at hand was where to build the Bengals foot-, ball stadium. Mr. Brown, the team's president, wanted it on public land next to the Roebling Suspension Bridge, smack in the center of Cincinnati's riverfront Everyone else in the meeting was determined to move the stadium one block west to allow for a park, entertainment district and housing along the city's front porch.

Mr. Brown thought that Enquirer fileERNEST COLEMAN April 25, 1998: City and county officials, Mike Brown and the Bengals mascot break ground for Paul Brown Stadium. The completed stadium opens this week. in Los Angeles Monday to nominate Al Gore for president and Joseph Lieberman for vice president believe the same will happen for them in an equally choreographed four-day infomercial. "Al Gore and the Democrats who speak at the convention need to remind people how well-off we are compared to eight years ago," when the Republicans were in the White House, said Kentucky delegate Jerry Strieker, a Covington city commissioner.

Ignore the polls and stay the course is the advice most Ohio and Kentucky delegates would deliver to their nominee. "I think he needs to relax and be himself," said Jane Campbell, an Ohio delegate and Cuyahoga County commissioner. "Talk about the economy, the investment in our people, and show the incredibly positive impact of the policies of the Clinton-Gore administration." Pointing to the economic boom will be one of the principal occupations of those who come to the podium to speak at the Staples Center in Los Angeles this week. The message will be simple: If you liked the economic good times of the Clinton years, the Gore years will be even better. "Gore needs to show middle-class families that prosperity will continue to grow," said 22-year-old Allison Friedrich of Athens, Ohio, an intern in the congressional office of U.S.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio Democrat Delegate Shirley Huesl-mann of Fort Mitchell, the chairwoman of the Kenton Schedule of events Wednesday Paul Brown Stadium Dedication, adjoining practice fields. "I was compelled to move it," Mr. Brown said. The stadium meant to keep the Bengals in Cincinnati was back on track.

Again. Paul Brown Stadium is nearing IF TEMPO Inside 16-page special section provides an Inside look at the new home of the Bengals. 3 p.m.: Remarks from project leaders, unveiling of a plaque and live entertainment Public Open House, would be expensive and delay construction. The issue threatened to be a deal breaker. The new football stadium's future was up in the air and falling fast "It was like being invited the end ot a seven-year odyssey that started when Mr.

Brown first threatened to pull the Bengals out of Cincinnati if he didn't get a new home for the team. Today, the stadium's swirling design, with angled concrete corners and curving steel frame, is Jonathan Winters shines in special I On the Loose, a one-hour pledge-drive special tonight on Channel 48, captures the wacky world of Jonathan Winters with wonderful TV clips from the 1950s, '60s jnd70s.El Mrr to a party to get our heads Mike Brown 4-10 p.m.: Free tours of the stadium (individuals are asked to bring a banned good item to benefit the FreeStore FoodBank), including team spaces such as the locker room. Live entertainment and games for kids. It will be the only opportunity for the public including season ticket holders to walkn the playing field. 4 't Thursday Fans Sneak Preview, 7-10 p.m.: Season ticket holders will be able to see their seats and watch the first game on the field a Bengals alumni flag football game.

Saturday Grand Opening, 7:30 p.m.: Preseason game vs. the Chicago Bears. TASTE troversy for a project defined by a troubled past At $453.2 million, Paul Brown Stadium is the most expensive public works endeavor in the city's history. Politically, it has taken years of backroom deals, often made at the last possible moment, to keep the project moving forward. That is nothing new in a city handed to us, said Troy Blackburn, Mr.

Brown's son-in-law and the team's director of stadium development "They brought in all the business community folks to lean on us." The meeting opened in an office at the Enquirer Building, overlooking the disputed turf, and lasted five hours. By the time it was over, Mr. Brown was ready to make a deal: He agreed to move the stadium in exchange for three unique in the NFL and winner of a national architecture award. But the stadium has been the source of repeated friction in the community. Time and again, problems threatened to kill the deal before the first shovel of dirt was turned.

Those disputes contributed to soaring costs, which have pushed the stadium at least $46.2 million over budget the crowning con- Best iced tea takes five minutes The quickest, coolest way to slake your thirst with iced tea is to skip the slow-brewing method. Our taste team's favorite brand takes five minutes to make. E9 See STADIUM, Page A20 See DEMOCRATS, Page A17 WEATHER Truckers welcome end of detours Koreans hope reunions mend hearts, then nations High 84 Low 62 Mostly sunny. B8 Index 1 sections, 160th year, No. 126 Truck ban: By the numbers 5,000: Approximate number of tickets issued to violators since ban was put in place in July 1998.

145: Trucking companies that had multiple citations since December 1998. Most of these companies are located outside theTristate. 40: Number of states from which drivers have been cited since December 1998. Since tracking began, most drivers cited have been from: Ohio (177) Tennessee (125) Illinois (133) Indiana (86) Kentucky (59) Source: Dan Pinger Public Relations Movies E2.4-5 Obituaries B7 Plugged In D3 Puzzles E15 TV Week Abby E15 Editorials G2 Forum Gill Kids Comer B8 Lotteries B2 patcher for Sharonville-based Mason Dixon Truck Lines, of the 0.8-mile stretch that connects Interstates 71 and 75. "Obviously it was a pain for us time-wise as well.

We plan to get good use out of the new highway." Fort Washington Way, which has been closed to all traffic since Friday night, reopens at 5 a.m. Monday. Also opening: a reconfigured Third Street which switches direction to east-to-west and the ramps from Columbia Parkway (U.S. 50) west to Fort Washington Way and Third Street. his mother.

She died in 1995. "If only mother had lived a little longer," said the poet's brother, Seoul resident Oh Hyong-jae, 62. "Mother used to cry a lot alone on my brother's birthdays." The poet had joined the North's army in July 1950. Thousands of South Koreans are thought to have gone to the North voluntarily or after being drafted into its army during the Korean War. An estimated 1.2 million North Koreans fled to South Korea at the same time.

Since the war, a highly militarized border has separated the Koreas. There is no direct communication be tween private citizens. But North and South recently agreed to exchange 100 people each for reunions after the first summit of their leaders in June. Those relatives are at the forefront of the effort to rebuild a single nation. "Without a solution to this humanitarian issue, we cannot achieve anything else," said Lee Sang-man, a professor at Chung-Ang University who is advising the South.

The meetings will take place in the tightly sealed environments of hotels in Pyongyang and Seoul. The New York Times contributed to this report. By Jae-Suk Yoo The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea -North Korean poet Oh Young Jae put his joy and yearning on paper when he learned in 1990 that his mother, whom he had not seen for half a century, was still alive in South Korea. "Mother, please don't get older. Mother, I wish I could stop time until the nation reunifies and we can get together again," he wrote.

Although Mr. Oh, 66, will visit Seoul on Tuesday as one of 100 North Koreans taking part in four-day reunions with family members in the South, he won't see Ft. Washington Way ban cost time, money By James Pilcher The Cincinnati Enquirer When Fort Washington Way reopens Monday morning, downtown commuters won't be the only ones rejoicing. After two years and about 5,000 citations, wide vehicles will be allowed back on the reconfigured highway, meaning many fewer headaches for truckers. "I'd estimate that it cost us an extra $300 to $500 a day to avoid that short connection," said Jason Jones, dis Classifieds D5, HMO, 11-20, Jl-30 Online enquirer.com Portions of todays Enqunf wwe printed on mcycted paper.

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