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...hairline fractures have begun to appear in American opinion. Some of the divisions are generational. Those with memories of earlier wars seem warier than the young about new military adventures. Vietnam veterans are especially cautious about a new war. Says Richard Zierdt of Circle Pines, Minn., who served as an Air Force sergeant in Vietnam: "Veterans are the least willing to create new veterans. War is never really inevitable until you fire the first shot. But I think our current policies are taking us that...
...oracle herself resides in a modest subdivision of Stillwater, Minn., & replete with neat lawns and American flags. Beattie (that's Beet-y) sits in the sun in a cafe along the St. Croix River with tall pines casting a shadow on the water and her 42-ft. houseboat, Nightsong, floating placidly down the way. In her calm, girlish voice, she orders decaffeinated coffee before a light lunch ("I let go of caffeine this year"). Beattie leads a pure, "land-o'-lakes" life and has a sense of, well, serenity. This wasn't always so. The sleeves of her soft blouse...
...what might be called the Las Vegas syndrome. First, UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian turned up in the Oval Office for a Bush handshake. Then Siegfried and Roy, the lion tamers and Strip headliners, also appeared in the President's office. Finally, during a Bush campaign stopover in Rochester, Minn., who should pop out of nowhere to sing the national anthem but Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton. The odd sightings can all be traced to Sigmund Rogich, the President's events coordinator, who grew up dirt poor on the outskirts of Las Vegas...
...current move against cigarette machines began last year in White Bear Lake, Minn., which adopted a ban that was quickly copied by other communities. The new flurry of laws could speed the demise of what is an ailing industry: in the early 1970s, machines accounted for 22% of cigarette sales. Today the figure is a mere...
...Skogfjorden, 18-year-old "Torgeir," Daniel Howland from Bloomington, Minn., says, "I tried to hate it" when his parents sent him here at 14. He loved it, paid his own way with scholarship help for two more years, and today speaks fluent Norwegian as one of the teachers. He is speaking with difficulty just now because a beginning class has covered him with paper tags: TENNER on his teeth, EN MUNN on his mouth, EN NESE on his nose and so on. He is a huge, powerfully built youth, amiably playing the gawk for his adoring students...