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Contenders could energize their campaigns by addressing issues critical to the West

By Patty Limerick
The Denver Post
January 25, 2008
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Let’s begin with a moment that will not strain your imagination.

Let’s say that we are sitting in front of our TVs, yawning a bit as we listen to a predictable debate among presidential candidates.

Now imagine the moderator suddenly catching all candidates, campaign staffers, journalists, and citizens, by surprise:

“We have discussed, at length, Senator Clinton’s ‘likability’ and her propensity for tears,” the moderator says. “We have pondered the question of what it might mean to be the standard-bearer for the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Let’s shift to the issues of the American West. (Read on …)

Contributed by: CU News Services on 1/25/2008
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The work of George Catlin, best known for his paintings of American Indians in the mid-1800s, will be examined in a Feb. 7 lecture presented by the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

“Living Beyond Lament: Rethinking George Catlin’s Vanishing America” will be presented by Professor John Hausdoerffer, an environmental historian and ethicist at Western State College in Gunnison.

Hausdoerffer will speak at 7 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 150. The event is free and open to the public. (Read on …)

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