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Early in the morning of Nov. 5, 1995, exactly a year before Election Day, Bob Dole was jetting from South Dakota to accompany the man whose job he sought. As Senate majority leader, Dole had been asked to join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HE GOT THERE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Forty young Lakota warriors stand in prayer at the edge of a South Dakota pasture. They bless themselves with sage smoke and thank the spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIAN SUMMER | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

...Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole who would do nine events in South Dakota for Pressler in a single day later that summer. And when Dole was publicly warned by right-wing groups not to make an endorsement in Virginia's ugly Senate primary last spring, incumbent Warner went to his old friend and said, "Don't risk coming. The presidency is far more important than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF DOLE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...Native Americans, a culture seldom if ever explored on TV outside Discovery-channel documentaries. Displaced from a reservation to a gang-infested California town, Mollie (Sheila Tousey), the widowed matriarch, tries to quell her rage with drink; but the story ultimately belongs to her eldest daughter Justine (Deeny Dakota), who is battling her own history of despair. The teenager has never known her natural father, but when she finds him, her pain is deepened: he is also the father of the only gentle suitor she has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: FAMILY AFFAIRS | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

While at USD, Brokaw began dating Meridith Auld, a high school classmate who was the cheerleading captain and was selected Miss South Dakota...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: A Midwesterner In Harvard Yard | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

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