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...surprised if Rankin takes the roughness in stride. His big brother Kevin, who plays for Northwestern, was the 1990 Big Ten Rookie of the Year...
...generation walked the corridors of power. "Instead of being able to feel like we're still kids and having to look up at the generation running things, suddenly there's a guy your age who is President of the United States," says Paul Hirsch, a sociologist at Northwestern University. "This is the first time that the country has symbolically acknowledged that we baby boomers have it all figured...
Conservationists have long bemoaned the absence of the wolf in the otherwise complete Yellowstone ecosystem. Extending from northwestern Wyoming into southern Montana and Idaho, it is the largest expanse of virtually unspoiled wilderness in the Lower 48 states. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 requires the U.S. government to take steps to bring back the wolf, but a succession of plans to reintroduce the animal to Yellowstone and other parts of the West have become mired in controversy. Even though a majority of Westerners favor the return of wolves, formidable opposition comes from local ranchers and hunting outfitters who fear...
...Marcos, where she had been coordinating opposition to the quincentennial celebration. For the past two years, she has been a leading member of the campaign -- ultimately successful -- to have the U.N. designate 1993 as the International Year for Indigenous Populations. A Mayan of the Quiche group from northwestern Guatemala, she moved to Mexico in 1981, after her father, mother and a brother were killed by government security forces. "I only wish that my parents could have been present," she said last week...
...Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management placed first for the third straight year, while the Harvard Business School stayed in third...