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Courses at Chief Dull Knife are similar to those at any community college--English, history, math--but with a unique Northern Cheyenne flavor. Reading includes books like Cheyenne Autumn, a highly praised 1953 novel about the tribe's 1878-79 return to Montana after exile in Oklahoma. History classes teach America as experienced by both whites and Native Americans. Part of the curriculum is devoted to Northern Cheyenne culture and its complex language, which is still spoken by a few elders but almost no students. For decades, reservation schools were strictly English-only. The chairman of the Dull Knife board...
...doctorate in education from Boston University and is fluent in Cheyenne; he teaches evening courses in it. He refers to tribal colleges as "underfunded miracles." With a meager $4.9 million budget provided mostly by the Federal Government, his school operates on a thin shoestring indeed. But Chief Dull Knife College perseveres, holding out hope for a new generation of Northern Cheyennes. More than half its graduates now go on to four-year schools. One of them is Jennifer Wooden Legs, 29, daughter of the college-board chairman, whose academic career was postponed by five horrific years of meth addiction. ("Very...
...role of media. The event featured names such as TIME's Joe Klein, Romesh Ratnesar, Mark Halperin and Karen Tumulty and CNN's Campbell Brown, Christiane Amanpour and Wolf Blitzer--as well as dozens of other heavyweights from the worlds of media and politics, including Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter, New York Times columnist Frank Rich, former ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Republican strategist Mark McKinnon...
...government guarantees should insure that interbank loan rates retreat to the point where money is moving again. With the first capital injections a few days away, loans should begin flowing easily in a matter of weeks, says Scott Talbott, chief lobbyist for Financial Services Roundtable, representing major U.S. banks. "This will open up credit immediately, and the benefit will begin to flow to small businesses shortly thereafter," he says. Every $1 of equity creates $10 in lending power. Half of the $250 billion set aside for capitalization is targeted at smaller banks. Some banks are wary of the strings attached...
...thinking for the long term, it still is. To stock watchers, the flight to safety--capitulation, in other words--is a good thing, signaling that a market bottom is near. More important, though, says Tom McManus, chief investment officer at Wachovia Securities, is your own comfort level: "If you can't sleep, you have to sell down to the sleeping level--a mode where you are comfortable opening the statement and discussing it with your adviser or a family member...