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...oratorical standpoint, Walter Mondale gave the best speech of his life that night. The crowd at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco (admittedly, a partisan audience) was hanging on his every word. Even though he was following Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro, the lead-toungued Minnesotan was thrilling the audience...
This is a good week to be a proud Minnesotan...
...start, clouded with coke and racism. But within a week the sky cleared and everyone simply started over, the thing baseball does best of all. Bo Jackson of Kansas City and Eric Davis of Cincinnati began applying for Willie Mays' and Roberto Clemente's old jobs. That odd-shaped Minnesotan Kirby Puckett resumed clubbing homers the unlikely way he did last year. With his Ted Williams stroke, the Mets' Darryl Strawberry worked at dissociating himself from scandal...
Truth is, I'm more of a "folkvillain," but the writer, being a Minnesotan, was simply too polite to say that. Folks out there are really kind and decent...
...Renowned Minnesotan poet Robert Bly '50 read a series of 10 eight-line poems entitled "Sorrow and knowledge...