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These new pragmatic idealists approach political protest with the same methodical preparation they might give to a job interview. At the University of Wisconsin, students have organized petitions and face-to-face negotiations with the administration. Says John Schenian, president of the Wisconsin Student Association: "If demonstrations are your only tactic, then you're not going to be very successful. You just don't appear to be very rational...
...title Ms. Wheelchair Wisconsin was awarded last week to the third-place contestant after the winner was forced to give back her crown and the first runner-up refused to take it. Why the pageant turmoil? Officials said Janeal Lee, 30, a scooter-dependent teacher with muscular dystrophy who can still walk about 50 feet a day, violated a rule against appearing in public out of her wheelchair. "Every year there are tasks I have to give up doing because of my disease," says Lee. "I guess when it progresses enough, I'd be able to enter [the contest] again...
...literally given me my life back. Ironically, even the doctor who prescribed it thinks much of my pain is "psychological." The only response I have for such doctors is to say that chronic pain can happen to anyone - it might even happen to you. Debbie Dellenbach La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. As your report noted, pain is your body's way of telling you something is wrong. That is important information, so don't kill the messenger by taking pain medication. Find the source of the pain, and do something about it by changing your diet and lifestyle or seeing...
While town president of Cicero, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Loren-Maltese, along with seven co-defendants, was convicted of funneling over $10 million in an insurance scam. The money was allegedly used to buy Cadillacs, a golf course in Wisconsin, and a horse farm in Indiana, the Tribune reported...
Meanwhile, a group of students at the University of Wisconsin tried to woo a crowd of 10,000 to a party. The group hoped to set a record for mixing a drink of each partygoer’s contribution of choice...