Word: dakota
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...been a catalyst for the Russian national team. But the real sniping began with the "defection" of Becky Hammon, a WNBA star who signed a contract with a Russian club that helped her gain citizenship and a spot on the national team for these Games. Like Holden, the South Dakota native has no family links to Russia, and she can't read the Cyrillic on her new red passport. But as she was the 2007 runner-up MVP in the WNBA, Hammon's decision stung. "If you live in this country and you put on a Russian uniform...
...Dems' hold on power even stronger, much of this Congress's work is really more about laying the foundation for next year. "Some of these things are like spring training, you know, that the real game is going to be played next year," says Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat...
...female agent has been murdered, and her colleague Dakota Whitney (Amanda Peet) has enlisted Mulder and Scully to help her find the killer. One clue comes from visions of the murder claimed by Father Joe (Billy Connolly), a Catholic priest who had been convicted of sexually abusing dozens of altar boys decades before. In line with their old TV selves, Mulder is sympathetic to the man's assertions, Skully skeptical. "Do you believe him?" an agent (rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner) dismissively asks Mulder, who replies, "Let's say I wanna believe...
DIED. JESS THOMAS, 66, tenor; from a heart attack; in San Francisco. At 6 ft. 3 in. with a solid, profoundly expressive tenor, Thomas was truly a born Wagnerian hero. Raised in South Dakota and a student of child psychology before devoting himself to a musical career, he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1962 as Walther in Die Meistersinger. With a repertoire encompassing virtually every heldentenor role composed by Wagner, Thomas went on to become that rarity of the '60s and '70s -- a singer whose vocal and dramatic power could match that of the great heroic soprano...
...Clearly that has changed, and young companies like GEM are taking advantage. GEM, which stands for Global Electric Motorcars, is a Fargo, North Dakota, subsidiary of Chrysler that's been selling small electric vehicles for a decade - or as GEM President Rick Kapser has said, "back when gas was a $1.25 a gallon." GEMs may look a bit like golf carts - and they may occasionally be used as golf carts as well - but they are real, street-legal vehicles, drivable on any road with a speed limit of 35 mph or less. Their success provides a good window into...