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...level of security after Sept. 11. "Whether it's a state of half a million or 4 million, you've got to do certain basic things," Senator Leahy told Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge during a February hearing. Says Doug Friez, the top homeland-security official in North Dakota (pop. 642,200), which received $52 a person in federal funds last year, the fourth highest per-capita allocation by state: "We realize North Dakota may not be first on Osama bin Laden's list. But we have some significant infrastructure, we have big buildings...
...would be ideal if every American town had a basic level of readiness, but the total pot of money is too small, says Tim Ransdell. He authored one of the few comprehensive assessments of homeland-security money on behalf of the Public Policy Institute of California. "Wyoming and South Dakota are important states, but it's a bit counterintuitive to say an individual in those states is manyfold more important than someone living in a state that has a border with a foreign nation, some of the nation's icons and almost half of the nation's containerized cargo." Says...
...each other up. Hardly sounds fair, right? Turns out most college hockey followers agree. The latest USCHO.com poll released on Monday had the Black Bears of Maine ranked as the No. 1 team in the nation on the strength of their triple-overtime 2-1 win over UMass. North Dakota fell slightly after a 5-4 loss in the WCHA Championship to current-No. 3 Minnesota. And Boston College clocked...
...Angeles. Magic! Tactile sensation, immediate contact, synaesthetic pleasure: These are the artifacts of old-fashioned travel that have been replaced by the passivity of the “commuter.” Even if I bother to look out the window somewhere over South Dakota, the enormous visual distance between me and the ground turns the world below into a series of grids, geometrical shapes and snaking lines. The landscape is pretty, but it’s not real...
Shrum carries a colorful political history: A Harvard Law School graduate, he was principal speechwriter to former South Dakota Sen. George S. McGovern in his 1972 presidential run. Fired after 10 days on the only successful presidential campaign for which he has ever worked (Jimmy Carter’s in 1976), Shrum trashed the candidate on his way out. After finding a permanent home as the top wordsmith for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., Shrum opened a wildly lucrative political consulting shop noted more for its consistency than its batting average...