Stories from Saturday, November 22, 2003

Much has been made in many circles about the University of Nebraska's "N Drive," an attempt to raise $65 million to upgrade the university's athletic facilities, virology department and computer science lab. "Why now?," "Why so much?," and "What's wrong with our priorities?," say the critics, including Gloria Masoner and Ronda Graff of the McCook Daily Gazette and Rainbow Rowell of the Omaha World-Herald...

An event took place 40 years ago in Dallas which changed the course of history. The President of the United States was assassinated. My friendship with John Fitzgerald Kennedy started in the winter of 1957. I was sitting in my law office on the 14th floor of the Sharp Building in Lincoln, Nebraska when I received a call from John Kennedy, a young Senator from Massachusetts, who told me he had a room at the Cornhusker Hotel and would like to visit with me. ...