Word: austin
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...team also welcomed their newest addition, sophomore Ben Rosen. He transferred this semester from the University of Texas at Austin. He swam the butterfly leg of the 200 Medley Relay, as well as the 200 Freestyle, the 100 Butterfly and the 200 Freestyle Relay...
...with Lizbeth, a memoir of homelessness, "[the book] should guarantee its author a roof over his head for the rest of his life." And indeed, in the weeks and months that followed the publication of Eighner's critically acclaimed work, the reviewer's wish seemed to come true. The Austin, Texas, writer soon moved into a three-bedroom house. His work appeared in Harper's and the New York Times. He lectured in Hawaii and San Francisco. Esquire magazine even sent him as its representative to the Oscars in Hollywood. After three years of living on the streets and eating...
Except the story doesn't end there. Late last year, to the general amazement of Austin's literary community, Lars Eighner was homeless again, living in a tent by a creek bridge not far from where he had written his famous book, eating from Dumpsters again, destitute and with few prospects. For more than two weeks, he lived there with his dog Lizbeth and the same male companion he has been with for nearly a decade. Then some of Eighner's friends rescued him, at least temporarily. For now, by the grace of those friends, the 49-year-old writer...
...list of colleges that students attend is incredibly diverse, ranging from Stanford to Harvard to Lewis and Clark to the University of Texas at Austin," McEvoy said. "We do have applicants to Harvard every year. We have applicants who are Harvard material who don't go and go to Cambridge and Oxford instead...
...AUSTIN: In Texas, everything's bigger. Indeed, at around $14.5 billion, the state's settlement with Big Tobacco ? set to be announced Friday, the day the trial was scheduled to begin ? is the largest yet. But it should be no surprise that the lawyers are walking tallest of all: They've gleaned a whopping $2.18 billion out of that total for their fees...