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...John's University, had a prominent career with the National Urban League and went on to become one of the great Washington insiders. Baldridge is probably best remembered for the Malcolm Baldridge award given to outstanding businesses or nonprofits, but he had a fascinating life. His father was a Nebraska congressman, and Baldridge went on to become head of Scovill, which makes fasteners for much of the world?s apparel. His biography notes: "Baldrige worked during his boyhood as a ranch hand and earned several awards as a professional team roper on the rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo...
...should we assume this urge to withdraw is only a conservative tactic. In the state of Nebraska, the only black member of the state legislature is Ernie Chambers. Ernie is so liberal that a colleague in the legislature said, ?Ernie sees racism when he pours his breakfast cereal.? But Ernie Chambers recently pushed through a new bill that carves Omaha?s school district into three-a black district, a white district, and a Hispanic district. He thinks this will protect black schools from being cheated of their fair share of bond proceeds. He also says black families should decide what...
...Years of probation given to a Nebraska man for sexually assaulting a child, by a judge who said he was too small to survive in prison...
...earn four stars in the course of a career in military intelligence. A blue-collar kid who drove a taxi to help pay his way through college before joining the Air Force, his first job in 1970 was as an analyst and briefer at the Strategic Air Command in Nebraska. He worked in intelligence in Germany during the Balkans war and in South Korea, and at the National Security Council with Condoleezza Rice during the first Bush Administration. As NSA director, he sometimes dropped in on CIA station chiefs in embassies overseas but without the usual retinue of aides...
...chorus of foreign-policy mandarins from both parties is pushing Bush to make the Iranians a more dramatic offer: face-to-face negotiations. "I don't understand why we are not exercising all of our diplomatic options with Iran, and that begins with talking," says Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican. "Diplomacy is about talking...