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...change this policy and applaud the strong Senate support for this policy change expressed in this letter." Among the other Senators whose signatures appear on the letter: Republicans Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; and Democrats Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska...
...original version of this article identified the wrong state that Senator Tim Johnson represents. It is South Dakota, not North Dakota...
...South Dakota Sioux attending an off-reservation elementary school, actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman had to cut his hair and stop speaking his native language. The experience pushed him in later years to restlessly promote his heritage. A celebrated activist for Native American causes, he became a well-known actor in dozens of films and TV shows, and toured with Sting and performed with Willie Nelson. In his best-known role he played Sioux leader Ten Bears, who befriends Kevin Costner's character in 1990's Dances with Wolves. Westerman was 71 and had leukemia...
Feeling down in the dumps? Move to South Dakota. In its new state-by-state rankings based on the prevalence and severity of depression, the nonprofit Mental Health America found that places like the Dakotas and Hawaii fared better in part because they have more psychiatrists and social workers per capita as well as more residents with health insurance. Says psychologist David Shern, the organization's president and CEO: "Access is the moral of this story...
...Kidman has played the bitch goddess before, though never with such silky pleasure in being malevolent. If there's a casting revelation, it's the lead actress, who was just 12 when she was chosen for Lyra, her first professional role. Dakota Blue Richards: it sounds like the name of a second-tier rock star's kid. But she's an actual English girl (with an American mother), and a knockout. Her look is both wary and sleepy, as if she'd just been poked awake from a bad dream. There's an intelligent insolence about Richards, suggesting...