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Burger was in many ways a walking contradiction, a gregarious loner. He showed up at social events all over the capital, but he had few intimates. When Nixon named another Minnesotan, Harry A. Blackmun, to the high court and Blackmun wondered whether he was up to the job, Burger thundered, "Of course you are. Harry, you and I have been preparing all of our lives for these jobs. We are as good as the rest of them...
...part, to defray the costs of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and the states can still use the money they collect in welfare cases for that purpose. Funds recovered on behalf of nonwelfare mothers, however, simply get passed on to them. The result, says Sue Anderson, a Minnesotan who spent years trying to collect from her ex, is "if you have any sort of income, [the states] don't give you the time of day." Some 7.5 million women nationwide share her frustration...
...women often have trouble finding a lawyer who will initiate a child-support case on contingency. In fact, several states have now contracted out some of their collection work to private firms. The likelihood is that ever more women may find themselves following in the footsteps of Minnesotan JoAnn Anderson. She filed a child-support claim with the state in 1990; nothing happened. In 1993 she hired Hoffman's firm, which located him within a few weeks. She now receives $1,600 a month. "I don't mind paying their fee," she says. "I am certain Minnesota would never have...
...read. Block reports that his office gets 50 to 100 phone calls every day asking about Simpson. Many are messages of sympathy and support. Most are merely curious -- people, says the sheriff, who "want to know what he's wearing and what he's eating." One irate Minnesotan phoned last Thursday demanding to know how the sheriff's department was planning to celebrate O.J.'s 47th birthday, which, coincidentally, fell last Saturday, one day after he was remanded to trial. Simpson could not have been in much of a mood to celebrate...
...court cafeteria with his clerks; a four-block walk around the building at lunchtime, along with a visit to the decrepit exercise room in the court's basement. On Saturday nights he and his wife listened to A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor, who dubbed his fellow Minnesotan "the shy person's jurist...