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...quite Friendship Wisconsin shortly after the Civil War, A Prayer of the Dying is the story of Jacob Hansen, the town sheriff, pastor and undertaker, whose only purpose in the life is to watch over and attend to his people. As an all purpose civil servant for a disparate community, including everything from the spiritual colonists of the Wisconsin woods to simple, hardworking farm families Jake struggles to care for and understand everyone. Added to his cares is the livelihood of his own small family, and it is from his passion to love and protect all these people that...

Author: By Sarah D. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Sheriff, a Pastor, an Undertaker--Gloaming in a Wisconsin Summer | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...slap in the face of everything you used to (seemingly) stand for. In your old Sassy days, you preached independence, freedom from conformity and that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. Less than 10 years ago, you gave us 13-year-old girls stuck in rural Wisconsin a glimmer of hope, a pinky-swear promise that the world could be a funny, smart and even sexy place. You and your writers told us that 14-year-old boys with buck teeth and hard-ons weren't worth our mental energy, that it was more important to rock through...

Author: By Jessica A. Nordell, | Title: Will the Real Jane Pratt Please Stand Up? | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Feingold said that since he first became a senator in 1982 his philosophy of campaign finance has shifted from a "Wisconsin-style idealism of fairness" to "legalized bribery...

Author: By John P. Posch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sen. Feingold Fights for Finance Reform | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

These kind of advertisements, whether true or not (usually not), generally sway the voters. 95 percent of the candidates running for Congress this year who outspent their opponents won their seat. One of the few exceptions was Wisconsin, where the voters said, "Give us our government back...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: Putting a Cap on Campaign Finance | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

Invoking the legacy of populist Wisconsin politician, Robert M. LaFollette, Feingold said the "very few with the resources should not control the political process...

Author: By John P. Posch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sen. Feingold Fights for Finance Reform | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

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