“It’s like doing a term paper — you have to do your research.” Edward

“It’s like doing a term paper — you have to do your research.” Edward Hopson, senior partner of Real Estate Capital Partners in Cleveland speaking about how to borrow money. He spoke at a minority and female business conference at Youngstown State University.

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“There’s no question that when you have groups of police officers involved with drug dealing, that’s about as serious an image problem as a police department can have.”— Eugene O’Donnell, an instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice after three Providence, R.I., police officers were arrested in a cocaine-peddling sting.

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“People like her you want to see live forever.”— South Carolina state Sen. John Land on the death of Juanita Goggins, who in 1974 became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature. She was 75.