Word: minnesota
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Born in Colorado and raised in Minnesota, Jensen earned a master's degree in 1971 from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In 1969, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn...
That was back in 1984. Because we had the guts to run a favorite son for president, we are now the only ones entitled to wear t-shirts that say "Don't Blame Me, I'm from Minnesota." And every time Reagan sells arms to fanatics or falls asleep during negotiations, we feel a smug satisfaction. Everyone else is to blame...
...seems to be paying much attention to Minnesota. A visitor in my room the other day spent ten minutes insisting that the Mets were headed for the series. Classmates can't identify the Twins. And The Crimson sports page hasn't given the series any coverage. I've had to get my second-hand tales of baseball revellers from a grandmother who has never been to a game...
Watching the Twins was as much a part of growing up in Minnesota as is throwing snowballs, calling soft drinks "pop," and following the little red spoons to tour the Betty Crocker Kitchens at General Mills...
Gary Gaetti, Minnesota's powerful third baseman, imagines there will be five characters in these play-offs, counting the Homerdome. "The dome is home, man," he says slyly. "We use it." As discombobulating to strangers as Fenway's great Wall, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome has seen 56 Twins victories this championship season, their first in 17 years. "There are tricky little things about it," reports Gaetti, one of three Twins with 30 homers (and Outfielder Kirby Puckett has 28). "Balls bounce funny in certain spots. They get lost in the ceiling and die in the rightfield corner...