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Becky Kelso has risen from being a member of the Shak-opee school board to being the most influential person in the Minnesota House on K-12 issues. She is chairwoman of the House K-12 Education Finance Division, the subcommittee that controls the largest single chunk of the state's budget. Page Al. State band centennial The 65-piece Minnesota State Band will mark its centennial Sunday with a concert at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

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Associated Press tom(hg St Giving thanks on a firm foundation He, Mr Business The congregation of the Edgewater Baptist Church gives a prayer of thanks Sunday during Easter services In the remains of the church In Edgewater, Ala. After a tornado ripped through town last week, all that was left of the church were the pews and the foundation. Turn to A4. Nation Innovation struggles If producers of innovative products want them to become standard in the knowledge economy, experts say the products must show a superior knowledge asset, not just a physical asset such as a manufacturing plant. Page Dl.

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would be dominant in the Midwest Page Al. Creative violence? Experts haven't yet settled the argument over whether playing with violent toys produces violent children or kids who are learning to understand aggression. But one expert says that pretend gunplay with a stick can at least lead to play in which the stick becomes something else, but toy guns or violent action figures inspire imitation, not creativity. Page El. Staff columnists Al Sicherman: World Wide Wrong School gangs increase A U.S.

government report released Sunday said nearly twice as many teenagers reported gangs in, their schools in 1995 as did in 1989, and President Clinton urged Congress to fight the trend. Page A5. News With a View Disaster and resurrection The Rev. Herbert Chilstrom had visited disaster sites many times when he was presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), but in St. Peter, where he had once served a parish, viewing the tornado's destruction was personal, like attending a funeral.

He found reminders everywhere of a tenet of his Christian faith, that death is followed by resurrection. Page A6. World A grave papal message A frail-looking Pope John Paul, 77, delivered a grave Easter message Sunday before a crowd of more than 150,000 pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter's Square. He didn't mention the peace accord of Northern Ireland, but focused on regions of 'fratricidal strife and slaughter" in Africa and Europe, and most notably the Mideast PageA4.

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Page El. Editorial Social Security; speech Today's editorials examine President Clinton's proposals for meetings on Social Security reform and consider the limits on speech at the Mall of America. Page A8. Star Tribune photo by Jerry Holt They want to vote (no) on sports deals Participants In a Minnesota Citizens' Forum said last week that they want the private sector to be responsible for building sports arenas and they want ref-erendums on any future pro sports matters so the public can decide, not legislators. Among participants were, from right, Barbara Gnan of Woodbury, John Jacobson of Woodbury and Chuck Slmpkins of Cannon Falls.

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Louisiana State beat Notre Dame 87-64 in that game. The biggest crowd ever to attend any basketball game, according to the Guinness Book of Records, was 80,000 at the final of the European Cup Winner's Cup between AEK Athens and Slavia Prague, April 4, 1968, at Olympic Stadium in Athens. Contributions by New York Times and Cox News Service. Amo Houghton In addition to the members of. Congress, 94 other people including ambassadors, Cabinet members and private citizenswere in the official delegation accompanying the president and First Lady.

But not all members traveled to all countries, the White House said. QA recent Chicago Bulls-Atlanta Hawks basketball game set a National Basketball Association attendance record with 62,046 at the Georgia Dome. What is the largest crowd ever to attend a college basketball game? QCan you provide the names of the members of Congress who went to Africa with President Clinton? A The congressional delegation: Reps. Charles Rangel Jim McDermott William Jefferson Maxine Waters Donald Payne John Conyers Corrine Brown Elizabeth Furse Eddie Berriice Johnson (D-Texas), Albert Wynn Chaka Fattah Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas), Juanita Millender-McDonald Harold Ford Jr. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) and Joel R.

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