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...ones, is sketchy at best. He once told me that the school-voucher movement was Southern, white and conservative, even though it is predominantly Northern, urban and African American. He isn't above political opportunism of the basest sort - he has changed his position on free trade to suit Iowa's protectionist labor skates, and a cynic might argue that his position on Iraq was a clever response to a market void. But Dean is a master of the snappy formulation. He tells audiences, for example, that the President's tax cuts will "raise local property taxes and reduce services...
...also kept its civilian business going strong, especially on high-volume feeder flights to major international carriers like El Al. Allegiant Air, based in Las Vegas, specializes in discount flights to Sin City and has announced three new routes in the past two months: to Lansing, Mich.; Des Moines, Iowa; and Denver. Song, owned by Delta, is just off the ground, flying from New York City's J.F.K. to three points in Florida: West Palm Beach, Tampa and Orlando. Spirit has been around since 1992 and specializes in low fares to 14 destinations. The privately held carrier hasn't divulged...
...Sting, and moved it from Las Vegas to Anaheim, Calif. By that time, the AFL's high-scoring games and hockey-style hits along the boards had caught fans' attention and helped the league expand to 15 teams, mostly in such smaller markets as Albany, N.Y., and Des Moines, Iowa. But further growth seemed stymied by the lack of a broadcast outlet and by squabbling among the owners...
After teaching creative writing at the University of Chicago, Princeton, University of Iowa and the University of Pennsylvania, he retired in 1992 but has continued to publish fiction...
Pusey, an Iowa native and the first Harvard president born west of New England, was the deeply religious president of tiny Lawrence College in Appleton...