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Home: Dunster House and Lincoln, Nebraska...
What she misses most about the Cornhusker State: There's more popcorn in Nebraska than in Massachusetts, I feel...
...wants to travel cross-country by car: I want to visit Molly in Nebraska. And to discover regional interpretations of Subgum Mandarin Pan-fried Noodles...
...thing is certain: there are a million ways to give p.c. offense. At the University of Nebraska, graduate student Chris Robinson kept a 5 in.-by-7 in. desktop photograph of his wife wearing a bikini -- until two female coworkers complained that it constituted sexual harassment and got the department chairman to order it removed. The Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, bowing to pressure from Native Americans and allies, adopted the "nickname rule." This dictum bars sports teams from playing nonleague games with schools using American Indians as symbols...
...much for the luck of the Irish. So much too, it seems, for Notre Dame's chances to win the mythical national football championship. The week Notre Dame had ascended to the top of the polls, gritty Boston College knocked off the Irish in a 41-39 thriller. Undefeated Nebraska now becomes top dog. At least for the time being...