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According to local jokes, you can tell a North Dakotan if he thinks that summer means three months of poor sledding and has a ballistic missile silo in his backyard. Unfortunately, those jokes left out North Dakotans intense passion for hockey.Goal-greedy North Dakota (6-8-1, 4-5-1 WCHA) devastated the Harvard men’s hockey team (4-5-2, 4-3-1 ECAC) Friday night in a 10-1 blowout, breaking the Crimson’s undefeated record at home.“I think that they beat us soundly in every aspect of the game...

Author: By Alexandra E. Zimbler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fighting Sioux Crush Crimson | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...terrace under an almost moon, the black swans have vanished into the lake. David Diefenderfer has slipped outside for a cigarette; he's a leathery South Dakotan in a big black cowboy hat, and he hands over his card. HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL: BREEDER SERVICE, it says, with a picture of a syringe. He's in the cattle-reproduction business. He's also the father of nine children by seven women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pursuit of Teen Girl Purity | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...staggering blow." GEORGE MCGOVERN, former South Dakota Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, on the defeat of fellow South Dakotan and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2004 Election: Verbatim | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...soft-spoken South Dakotan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Tom Daschle | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...native South Dakotan, Tom Daschle went to Washington in 1973, just out of college and a stint in the Air Force, to become an aide to South Dakota?s Senator James Abourezk. In 1978, Daschle was elected to the House of Representatives, and in 1986 he moved into the Senate. He quickly gained a reputation for humility and a willingness to compromise. He also became known to his critics as a wolfish partisan, whose strong opinions were only partially disguised by a lamb?s demeanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Tom Daschle | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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