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...doing strong business [THEATER, Oct. 29]. To judge from the laughter and applause filling the Broadhurst Theater the other night when I was there, Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren have transformed the play into a dance of life. No wonder it's resonating with audiences just now. ALEXIS XENAKIS Sioux Falls...
...greatest undoing, however, will be the gargantuan steps taken by our government to fight these almost imperceptible dangers. In the name of protecting freedom, we'll watch our civil liberties diminish to near nothing. And what good is fighting for freedom if the freedom's gone? MICHAEL J.E. HANSON Sioux Falls...
...SOUTH DAKOTA: Commercial flights from Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Pierre and other South Dakota cities grounded...
TIME's story on the economic turnaround of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, "Winning Big Without Casinos" [INNOVATORS, June 18], quoted me as saying our previous tribal chairman was "interested in government handouts, not development." That statement was misconstrued and taken out of context. In 1990 I asked Wayne Ducheneaux, the chairman at that time, what position the tribe was taking on the Indian Economic Development Act, which had been introduced in the Senate. He responded that the tribe had no position on it and that it was more interested in an agriculture bill that had also been introduced. This...
...renaissance of the Cheyenne River Sioux began with a drunk in a dumpster. One day, 11 years ago, a man passed out while foraging for food in Gregg Bourland's garbage. Bourland was minding his own business - a video store in Eagle Butte, S.D. - when he found the guy. "Why do people drink like that?" Bourland asked himself, but he knew the reasons: unemployment and despair. Bourland went to the tribal chairman to ask what he was doing about all of the above. Answer: nothing. "He was interested in government handouts, not development," says Bourland. Later that year, 1990, Bourland...