Word: nebraska
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...brain drain" is certainly a familiar concept to the folks at home. Nebraska has started giving their brightest students generous financial packages (like the ones the top football players get) in an attempt to keep them around for college, increasing the chances they will stay in the state permanently...
Harvard posted victories over the likes of Central Michigan, Kansas and Ohio State. It also suffered convincing defeats at the hands of third-ranked Fresno State, fifth-ranked Nebraska and ninth-ranked Stanford. Still, the Crimson returned to Cambridge confident that its effort against some of the country's best would make the team much more competitive against its East Coast rivals...
Last week the danger of placating Dobson became clear when a darling of the right, the aptly named Jon Christensen, imploded in the gubernatorial primary in conservative Nebraska...
Dobson is now boosting former Representative Bob Dornan, the loudest, loosest cannon in all the right wing, who is running again for the California seat he has yet to concede he lost in 1996. If in conservative Nebraska the new family value seems to be tolerance, let's see if Newt goes to California to help...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...