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Hank Jr., born Randall Hank, conjures up his father's ghost in a more straightforward fashion. He recorded some of his new album in the real Almeria Club, a bar in Troy, Ala., where his old man is said to have once performed, and one of his songs, If the Good Lord's Willin' (and the Creeks Don't Rise), is adapted from his dad's old lyric sheets. The way Hank Jr. tries to generate excitement is also foursquare--he relies more on blazing guitar riffs than ingenious melodies. There's more bombast on 30 sec. of Almeria Club...
...Bethesda, Md. Smith, who in 1960 moderated the first-ever televised presidential debate (between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon), believed that journalists should take stands on some issues. He left CBS when CEO William Paley barred him from punctuating a 1961 documentary on racism in Birmingham, Ala., with the Edmund Burke quote "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing...
Already, as more integrated mills shutter their furnaces, the minis keep expanding. Steel Dynamics broke ground on a $315 million structural-steel and rail mill in Columbia City, Ind., last May. And just outside Mobile, Ala., a $35 million heavy-plate and coil mill went online last year, built by the Canadian firm IPSCO. Why did IPSCO invest in Alabama? A $500 million package of tax breaks and subsidies, including money for roads, rail service and docks along the Mobile River, helped attract the company, said a spokesman. So did the weakness of unions in Alabama...
...Saudi proposal also dovetails with both European peace plans and one jointly developed by Peres and Arafat deputy Ahmed Korei (Abu Ala). Even the Fatah militants responsible for the most recent wave of shootings and bombings appear to have acknowledged the 1967 borders as some form of boundary - almost all the attacks conducted in the past three weeks have been conducted outside of Israel's 1967 borders...
...both political parties and then seek bailouts, when workers get fleeced, while CEOs make more than an entire nation's GNP, our system has become horribly corrupt. Perhaps it is time for the kind of patriotism that inspires citizens finally to say Enough is enough. LANCE MOORE Monroeville, Ala...