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...federal spending, some Americans--and indeed whole states--are taking a bath. Residents of wealthy states in the Northeast and Midwest (such as Connecticut, New Jersey and Illinois) shell out far more in taxes than they receive in benefits, while poorer ones (such as New Mexico and North Dakota) get more than their share in return, according to a new report from the Taubman Center for State and Local Government...
...also leads to some interesting combinations, like the hip-hop-talking teenager I saw in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, who was wearing cowboy boots and chewing Red-Man Tobacco. The town of Belle Fourche was a hub for cattle roundups and cattle sales for the past two centuries. Apparently, now it is the hub of the rap world, the place from which the next Puff Daddy will emerge...
...Clinton was having mixed success with his Cabinet, his stock was sinking even faster with his party on Capitol Hill. Clinton's official supporters, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Dick Gephardt of Missouri, urged members to stay cool, but congressional aides were quick to acknowledge that their bosses were appalled by the President's behavior. Members were worried that they would be guilty by association--a chain the G.O.P. was beginning to forge in some ad campaigns in key districts. The widely cited Battleground poll released last week showed that Clinton's personal problems have elevated "moral and religious...
...world.) House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt, celebrating his 32nd anniversary with his wife in France, declined CNN's offer to dispatch a satellite truck so he could appear on Larry King Live. His Senate counterpart, Tom Daschle, was spending the week cruising around his home state of South Dakota, alone and, as one aide emphasized, "out of cell-phone range." Cornered at an event in Sioux Falls on Tuesday, Daschle admitted he was "disappointed in not being told the truth" when the President denied the affair. But, he said, "it's time we get on with...
...culture in which nuns and monks are usually depicted as demanding and dry or who, in their softest incarnations, wonder, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"? Theories vary, but one reason is poet and novelist Kathleen Norris. She first hit the best-seller list in 1993 with Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, a meditation on the farm crisis, religion and the wind-whipped Plains state of North Dakota. That was followed in 1996 by The Cloister Walk, a log of the nine months that Norris, a married Protestant, spent living among the monks at St. John's Abbey...