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...being one of a small cohort does not seem to bother them, since most report that their journeys here were made largely on their own. David Syverson, 29, a first-year seminarian baptized as a Lutheran in North Dakota, says of his decision, "This is really going against what society believes in. Mom and Dad were shocked, though they eventually accepted it." John Stimler, 25, an entering seminarian from Decatur, Illinois, notes that the celibacy business puzzled his friends and acquaintances: "People, especially young people, have difficulty comprehending how you can live without sex. 'Oh, boy! Strange bird here...
Unlike many of the flashier aspects of the Contract With America, the Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995 has garnered little attention from the media. Floor-managed by the lightweight Senator Pressler of South Dakota, the Act passed the Senate and the House by wide margins. Given the complexity of the technological issues involved, it is unlikely that the American public will pay much attention to upcoming wrangling between President Clinton and Congressional leaders over the bill's disposition. However, this issue is exceptionally important to the future management of communicative interactions in the American public and private sphere...
...than where he lives now. Little Boy, 41, lives in a one-room shack. Along with him live his wife, five children and two nieces: nine people jammed into a space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer, flies swarm...
...discretionary funds he is imperiling on health and schooling. "Tribes are in desperate need of resources for educating children, for protecting abused and neglected children, for combating alcoholism and drug abuse, for fighting crime, for building roads and water and sewer systems," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, as he argued to reinstate Indian funding earlier this month. "And we, the Federal Government, have a special trust responsibility to provide those resources to tribes." His side lost by a vote of 61 to 36. "It's not that people don't want to work," says Joe Blue Horse...
...four in medicine. Many plan to teach. Miss Massachusetts, a junior at Harvard, lists as her ambition "U.S. Senator." Four would make a mark in broadcast journalism. Miss Illinois has an edge here; she looks like a young Diane Sawyer. And Pat Robertson, take note: Miss North Dakota lists her ambition as "news anchor for Christian network...