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...oppression. They’re having babies in their teens, they’re dropping out of school. They’re not deferring gratification. All those elements combined with a few more devastate the economic fabric of a community. And we can’t wait for Abraham Lincoln to come riding down the street on a white horse to save us anymore,” he says...
...played high school football in Lincoln. He was heavily recruited by the Cornhuskers. His teammates are headed to Nebraska. His former teammates are already there. He’s a 6’5, 300-pound behemoth who you could easily see as a Blackshirt...
Which football powerhouse had the recruiting power to come into Lincoln and snag a star recruit from Nebraska’s grasp-—on its home turf no less...
...question is whether the changes will satisfy foreign buyers. The Organization for Competitive Markets, based in Lincoln, Neb., represents farmers and ranchers and believes the USDA proposals will not be enough to convince foreign buyers that the meat supply is free of mad cow. The Japanese, who paid dearly in lost sales and public confidence when they did not get tough on BSE until after a sick cow turned up in 2001, seem to be in no hurry to restart U.S. imports. Tokyo rebuffed an agricultural delegation from the U.S. last week and reportedly wants Washington to require...
...Tony Award--winning theater director; of respiratory failure resulting from the flu; in New York City. Though he periodically left the theater--for a year at Yale Law School (at age 49) and a stint as a chef's apprentice--he always returned to the stage, helming such acclaimed Lincoln Center productions as the 1992 revival of Frank Loesser's musical The Most Happy Fella, a Tony-winning 1996 production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and last season's spiffy revival of Dinner at Eight...