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...State's budgetary problems - a way to hit George W. Bush precisely where he lives by turning the governor's Texas record against him. In fact, Gore got so excited about this, he tore up his Washington-bound AF2 manifest and landed in San Antonio on Thursday. Forget the Alamo. Remember Boston Harbor...
...with defying gravity, up or down. Also, the feather, white feathers particularly, can be a symbol of cowardice. I like the story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those things are easy to collect and they're not things that people mind you taking. The feather came from Freud's pillow when I borrowed...
Brief side trips to the Alamo and the River Walk aside, the Crimson (1-1) did not take advantage of the 70-degree weather, instead staying in the gym and losing to a powerful Stephen F. Austin (2-0) team before defeating Texas-San Antonio (1-1) in overtime...
...California Republican Party's convention. To spur the American team on to its jingoistic, fist-pumping victory, Bush gave a pep talk in which he compared the brave golfers fighting to win a noisome corporate-infested sporting event to the brave men who fought to save the Alamo--the use of the profound in service of the mundane...
...graduates and their white counterparts. The minorities have become part of the mainstream. That kind of inclusion is precisely what affirmative action is supposed to accomplish. If enough folks like Gerald Ford can be convinced that Michigan's way of achieving it is not only effective but fair, the Alamo of affirmative action might result in victory--for the defenders...