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...PAUL, Minn.--She stood out in the crowd. No, it wasn't her gold hair that won her notice. It was her gold sweater. She was a Minnesota fan in Harvard's section of the St. Paul Civic Center...
...yellow sweater may have been an anomaly in the Harvard crowd, she was the norm in the arena. Of the more than 15,000 fans who attended the NCAA hockey championship game, easily 90 percent were Minnesota fans. The University of Minnesota is located 10 miles from the Civic Center...
...only high-rises on the horizon. "Our big industry is Social Security," says Thomas Lee, president of the Union State Bank. "Fully one-third of our checking accounts are senior-citizen deposits." The aging process has also led to a leadership vacuum, as older business people retire from civic life. And the town's young people show no inclination to stay. When a visitor asked a class of 20 Clay County high school students how many would stay in town or return after college, not a single hand went up. Volunteered their teacher: "They're not being...
...other passion is his proposal to create a Citizens Corps. The plan would have young people work at community jobs -- or serve in the military -- in exchange for education grants of $10,000 to $12,000 for each year of service. "We have to restore a sense of civic obligation," says Nunn. "Today everything is considered an entitlement." Nunn's national-service proposal has been criticized for discriminating against the poor, a charge Nunn finds "ridiculous . . . The current system isn't working. The dropout rates are horrendous, and $10,000 is more than almost every student could hope to make...
Zoning changes require the votes of six of the nine city councillors to be put in effect--seven, if more than 20 percent of the property owners file an objection. Because the council is divided between members backed by the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the more conservative Independents, controversial zoning changes are rarely approved...