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Anthea Fallen-Bailey, 47, had mapped a course for employment after receiving her master's degree in geography in the summer of 2001, and it did not include the Great Plains. Struggling with a flat job market around Portland, Ore.--"there was nothing there"--she happened on a job posting for Navigation Technologies, a digital mapping firm. "I was really surprised they were in Fargo," she says. After a month of researching the company and the area, she applied and was quickly offered the job in July...
Illingworth, also an Episcopalian priest, quietly left Harvard during summer vacation and traveled north to his home state of Maine to take on a deanship of a different sort—interim dean of St. Luke’s Cathedral in Portland, Maine...
...staging the tragedy at a fictional high school in his own city of Portland, Ore., Van Sant avoids this type of oversimplification, making what is surely one of the most thoughtful and inquisitive films of the year. Focusing on twelve students on the day of the shooting, Elephant patiently explores the pressures and indignities of being a high school student. The film renders its characters with unusual accuracy, commiserating with one student about the dress code for gym class and sharing the impatience of several juniors waiting for the day when they can go off-campus for lunch...
...crisis in the loss of manufacturing and skilled-labor jobs that will create a two-class economy: the wealthy and the fast-food and Wal-Mart workers. An economy like that is closer to the Third World than the U.S. of the 40s through the 70s. Mark Shanks Portland...
...done to the South in return for the latter's generosity, I say give them nothing. I agree with Bush. No treaty, give up the nukes if you want peace! We're looking at a dying regime trying to stay afloat. Hopefully soon it will be gone. A. Totman Portland...