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...BAND OF SETTLERS LEFT ILLInois for California. They ended up stranded in the Sierra Nevada at the outset of the worst winter ever recorded there. By the time the starving survivors straggled into Sutter's Fort, THE DONNER PARTY had written one of the darkest chapters in American history, a tale of humans reduced to the most desperate circumstances -- including, famously, cannibalism. For this PBS documentary, Ric Burns, a co-producer with his brother Ken of The Civil War, uses the same techniques as that series -- archival photographs, readings from diaries and letters -- to re-create the story with harrowing...
...inclined to sit on his lead, Clinton last week combined offensive and defensive campaign strategies. He revisited states like Wisconsin and Iowa, which had appeared safe for him initially but which have become shaky. He went ; west to Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada -- all traditional Republican bastions -- continuing his in-your-face challenge to Bush. The West, with its independent-minded electorate, was a good setting for Clinton to counter the Bush claim that he is an old-fashioned liberal in disguise -- a charge that is having some resonance in the polls...
...Nevada economist has given $10 million to the Harvard Divinity School, the largest gift in the school's history, officials said yesterday...
...tournament ended, with the Americans barely breaking a sweat except on the golf course, where they seemed to spend most of their time, everyone was ready to concede the gold medal in Barcelona to the assemblage now and forever more to be known simply as the Dream Team. Nevada bookmakers, who never miss an opportunity to make a dollar, have fastidiously refused to post odds or take a bet. The only surer wager than the Dream Team may be that George Foreman will not try to make it next as a featherweight...
...Senate voted 88 to 5 last week to bar states from allowing gambling on professional and amateur sports events. Nevada, Delaware, Oregon, North Dakota and Montana already allow sports gambling. Other cash-strapped states have been itching to get into the lucrative trade. Senator Bill Bradley, a former college and professional basketball star, said, "This will preserve the opportunity for all young people who want to participate in sports to regard the game as theirs, not the gamblers...