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Armey, who grew up on a farm in North Dakota, has a long history of going his own way. When he was 18, he ignored the recommendation of some high school teachers, enrolled in small Jamestown College in North Dakota and went on to earn a doctorate in economics at the University of Oklahoma. In what he describes as "a terrible period in my life," he butted heads with liberal faculty members at several universities before successfully running for Congress in 1984 as a political amateur against a popular incumbent. After a rocky start (he tried bunking in the House...
...date, 31 states have taken up the same-sex-marriage issue, with mixed results: five states--Georgia, Kansas, Idaho, South Dakota and Utah--have enacted bans, and 13 others have rejected them. Gay activists are leaning on historical precedent to quash other efforts. "In our lifetime it was illegal to marry someone of the 'wrong race,'" says Evan Wolfson, who directs the Marriage Project for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York. "Our opponents talk about marriage like it's been the same for 6,000 years." Count on the religious right's taking the issue...
Brokaw owns a radio station in South Dakota and a large ranch in Montana. In both states, Democrats have reportedly urged him to run for the U.S. Senate...
Jerry hires two thugs, the meek Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and deadly Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) from Fargo, North Dakota, to execute the plan. Unfortunately, Carl and Gaear are incompetant, and a botched kidnapping leads quickly to successful murder...
...casinos' record on spurring nongambling economic growth is so spotty. Local restaurants are often squeezed out by cheap in-house casino eateries. Atlantic City, New Jersey, lost about a third of its retail businesses after casinos moved in and former customers gambled away their discretionary dollars. In South Dakota, when slot machines were legalized to revive the Black Hills resort of Deadwood, the three car dealerships, the hardware store, the clothing shop and the local Taco Bell all converted into mini-casinos--a more lucrative business, gutting the town's retail base...