Word: nebraskas
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...maps. Over the last ten years, of course, the Republicans have leveled the playing field considerably. Before last November?s election, the Democrats controlled only 19 governorships while the GOP controlled 29. Of the 49 bicameral state legislatures, Democrats controlled 19, Republicans held 17, while 13 others were split. (Nebraska has a unicameral non-partisan legislature...
...very hard to measure these things," says Samuel Walker of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, author of Police Accountability. He wrote a paper suggesting that the best way to analyze the traffic-stop activity of particular officers is to measure it against the work of other officers pulling comparable shifts. Then, presumably, those cops who disproportionately stop blacks or Latinos (or whites, for that matter) could be identified. Walker's approach seems sound, but almost no cities collect traffic-stop data on a cop-by-cop basis...
...overall Vegas performance, the team headed to the Lone Star Duals in early January with a mission. And by proving a formidable foe to three schools ranked in the top eight, the Crimson definitely asserted its place among the wrestling elite. Though they fell to Iowa State, Oklahoma and Nebraska (ranked fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively), Harvard aggressively grappled these powerhouses-even forcing Nebraska to win the last bout in order to take the meet...
...should have seen the coaches from Nebraska when the announcer said over the loudspeaker that coming down to the last match Harvard could still upset Nebraska," said Picarsic. "That trip made our guys realize that as a team we could beat these top ten programs...
...personality and her work. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin called Cardinal "an essential personality in the fight for women's rights." DIED. CLIFF HILLEGASS, 83, founder of the yellow-and-black Cliffs Notes series of study guides that saved the posteriors of legions of American high-schoolers; in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hillegass started the business in 1958 with a $4,000 loan; the firm was sold in 1999 to IDG Books Worldwide for more than $14 million. DIED. NICOS SAMPSON, 66, guerrilla leader of the 1974 Cyprus coup that triggered the Turkish invasion that cut the island in two; in Nicosia, Cyprus...