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Missouri (remarkably still unbeaten in league play), Kansas and Oklahoma state have tournament credentials. But without a conference tournament win from one of the Little Five, this perennial basketball power-house could wind up with fewer berths than the Great Midwest, the Atlantic Ten and the Big East...
...will present a new crime-fighting package to the legislature next week. His proposals include rushing the opening of two of the 12 new prisons currently under construction and leasing space in county jails. Meanwhile, North Carolina is trying to ship 1,000 inmates over state lines. To date, Oklahoma and Rhode Island have contracted to house temporarily a total of 226 inmates. Even so, unless Hunt can persuade legislators to raise the statutory cap by March 15, he will be forced to release 3,400 inmates. And therein lies the rub. The mandatory sentences that keep drug offenders...
Representative Dave McCurdy (Democrat, Oklahoma): "A perfect choice...
...collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...fact, his most serious problem in the Secretary's job was not related to his policy decisions but to the overall drift of the Administration he was part of. "Les Aspin was dealt a difficult hand," says Oklahoma Representative Dave McCurdy, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, which Aspin once chaired. "The first card was gays and lesbians: faceup. Then came the three regional problems -- Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti -- for which nobody in the Administration had real answers." The heaving and rocking of the Clinton White House as it struggles to define America's role in the world...