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...That faith isn't shared by the loyal opposition. Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, an Energy Committee member, says, "I don't think the marketplace is working in a manner that gives consumers the assurance that they're not being manipulated. If you wait for the market to right itself, we'll be waiting for a long while before prices fall back into some reasonable line...
...less success. Several chapters have had to use euphemistic names, like Students for Reproductive Health, and downplay their interest in abortion. At other places, MSFC says, campus administrators have refused to give permission to start chapters. Jane van Dis started an MSFC chapter at the University of South Dakota last year. "Both students and professors have warned me I might be putting my future in jeopardy," she says. Hostile classmates have called group members "baby killers," according to Van Dis, and the chapter received a bomb threat through an anonymous e-mail...
...Pepsi Arena had banners for each of the schools that won NCAA titles and Harvard's hung just as gracefully as powerhouses North Dakota, Michigan and Minnesota...
...seem marvelously plausible--and the novel's overarching theme becomes poignantly clear. From 1912 to 1996, Agnes, disguised as Damien and thus a sham as both man and priest, tries to bring Roman Catholicism to the Ojibwes of Little No Horse reservation on a lonely patch of North Dakota. These people have been deprived of their ancestral lands and hence the sustaining spirits of their culture; they are stalled between past and future. What help can a missionary from the conquering side bring them...
...raised in South Dakota, where we had the same percentage of bullies and nasty young people as anywhere else. We also had easy access to guns. My family had four or five firearms in the house, including a pistol. Yet no one thought of using these guns to kill or maim a fellow student. There are some new factors at play, and until we understand them, we will be contributing to the continuation of these terrible events by providing a straw man for the politicians to pontificate against. ED HALLENBECK Murrieta, Calif...