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...published by Time Inc., ranked the area as the nation's best business spot earlier this year. Rounding out the Top 10: Provo-Orem and Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah; San Jose, Calif.; Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.; Gainesville, Fla.; Seattle, Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Albuquerque, N.M. At the bottom: small Midwestern cities like Jackson, Mich., home of that state's largest prison...
Presidents sometimes get better Supreme Court Justices than they deserve. After two mediocre nominees were rejected by the Senate in 1969-70, Richard Nixon finally chose Harry Blackmun, a prim Midwestern Republican the President knew could be confirmed and one he hoped would be a predictable lapdog to Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger had been Blackmun's grade-school classmate in St. Paul, Minnesota, and had recommended...
...worn out from overuse. The movie does not even attempt to reupholster the cliches. How many more times can Japanese characters be depicted as fanatical samurais or as bonsai-loving mystics before the laughs run out? Or how about the lumbering rookie who hails from the cultural vacuum of Midwestern farmland? And the proctology jokes...
...universal coverage" but had instead said "guaranteed coverage for every American." The wink was not lost on liberals -- who already felt abused by the White House's ardent courtship of moderates -- Governors and the Business Roundtable. "They're even waffling on universal coverage," said the top aide to a Midwestern Senator. "The message is that if you fight hard for progressive principles, the White House...
...scholars coming for lunch as in wrestling with the wording of minor speeches. He was reluctant to let even minor White House proclamations go out without review. He recently barked at an aide who tried to release a statement on ethanol, saying he had to run it by two Midwestern Senators -- personally. "It's almost a throwback to the old ( days when Presidents did everything themselves," said an official. Added another: "He tries to keep all these balls in the air. He could get away with it in Little Rock. He was smart enough to pull it off in that...