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Smack in the middle of northern Illinois dairy country, and about 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Harvard is a typical Midwestern farm town. Most of the 5,975 residents work on dairy farms, in tool and plastics manufacturing, or in health care. In June, Motorola Inc., the telecommunications giant, completed a cellular-phone facility, and is the town's largest employer. About 15 percent of the population is Hispanic...
...growls, the verbal wheat germ ("anti-dumping; level the playing field; Super Three; may not mean a lot to you, but it's important"), the unpopulated syntax ("Have to look into that. See what happens in committee. Gotta go"). Dole speaks a language all his own. It's Indo-Midwestern, rooted in a place where there's no extra credit for extra words, where humor is often truth's only reliable vehicle. Dole's vernacular of nods, grunts, snickers and shrugs can be as baffling to outsiders as the Navajo code talkers were to the Japanese military. He rarely praised...
When Curtis "C.J." Mahoney '00 and his co-valedictorian from Russell High School second the nomination from the courthouse steps in the small midwestern town, it will be the first time the gesture has been made from outside the convention center, according to C.J. Mahoney's mother, Joyce A. Mahoney...
MILWAUKEE: In a three-day Midwestern tour outlining his proposals for revamping education in the U.S., Bob Dole on Thursday proposed a "G.I. Bill" for school children. He would offer as many as 4 million lower- and middle-income Americans cash scholarships of $1,000 to $1,500 to send their children to the public, private or religious schools of their choice. The response drew quick and sharp condemnation from the Clinton Administration, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. "Bob Dole wants to tear down public education by pitting teachers against parents and dramatically reducing...
Much of what has kept Lindsey at Clinton's side over the past 28 years is an inner confidence that comes from his family's Midwestern Presbyterianism--"a sense of predestination," as White House senior aide Mack McLarty once put it. Lindsey is often the one in high-level meetings who speaks only if he has to. That sense of security will come in handy as he adjusts to a role reversal--watching the President defend him instead of the other way around...