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...EARLY GLIMPSE OF THE essential Bob Dole, one needs to revisit a summer day in 1964. Dole was then a second-term Congressman from Kansas, and he sat calmly in a Senate conference room while Karl Mundt, an archconservative from South Dakota, tore into the school-lunch program. "Come off it, Senator," Dole finally said. "These are kids we're talking about here...
...this incident that Dole had in mind as he flew back from South Dakota on Nov. 4 to join the U.S. delegation to Yitzhak Rabin's funeral. "I told them, 'No more of those pledges,'" he said. "That's it." And then, for the second time in three months, Dole mentioned a man named Rick Smith. Richard Norton Smith directs the Ronald Reagan presidential library, and has been close to Dole since helping the candidate write his book, The Doles: Unlimited Partners. Smith is one of a small cadre of Dole friends and Senate staff members who have been doing...
...those of you who haven't heard by now, Terrier freshman Travis Roy fractured his fourth cervical vertebrae in a game against North Dakota, an injury that has left him paralyzed below the neck. Surgery was performed on Monday to remove bone fragments and stabilize his spine, but the prognosis is not encouraging and doctors think he probably will not regain use of his arms and legs...
...play was a freak accident. Roy was finishing a check on a North Dakota player in the corner, when the rookie from Yarmouth, Maine stumbled and fell face-first into the metal portion of the boards before slumping down...
...HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, AND SPENT three weeks working on Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota two summers ago. The Native American people are so completely dependent on our government that if we take away their rightful funding we might as well shut them out of this country. They have a right to preserve their heritage, receive a proper education, live in a sanitary home and have roads and proper water and sewerage systems. The U.S. will be committing genocide if it reduces funding. It makes me sick to think that members of our government are responsible for these spending cuts...