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A joyous Cleveland braces for a fractious GOP convention

Philip Elliott
Cleveland Cavaliers fans celebrate an NBA championship as the city races to prepare for the next big test

Cleveland has come a long way since the polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire almost a half-century ago. Dubbed the Mistake by the Lake, the city just won its first major-league sports championship since 1964 and will host in July its first national political convention since 1936. So it’s to be expected that the city of 390,000 is puffing

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