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...Constitution, the rule of law and respect for human and civil rights. Like most Americans, I remember 9/11 with sadness, a sadness that deepens when I think of what our country could have been five years after the day when we were all one. Dorian de Wind Austin, Texas, U.S. "The nation that fell to earth" was helpfully provocative. Ferguson reminded us that geopolitical landscapes evolve through the interaction of many seemingly unrelated factors. Although it is impossible to predict the ultimate influence of 9/11 on the balance of international power, the article reminded us that...
...Austin, Texas...
Back in the 1970s, when Texas politicians still drank, smoked and sparred in dark smoky bars, The Quorum Club was Austin's premier political watering hole. There at the big corner table, you'd find a cast of political characters drawn in bold Texas strokes-men with firm handshakes and loud laughs, men who had been nurtured by LBJ and knew politics, by and large, for that matter, mostly men. Most women in the room then were decorative. Except Ann Richards, the onetime Texas governor with the sharp tongue and quick wit, who died Wednesday...
...didn't hear the throaty laugh first, you'd pick up on the shock of white hair at the corner table when Austin was in high politics season. Richards, then nearly 50 after years of teaching school and raising a family of four, had carved her way into Texas politics via a seat on the Travis County Commission, not a high station but a strategically placed one in the capital city. Her political roots lay with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party; she had supported the campaigns of U.S. Senator Ralph Yarbrough and Sarah Weddington, the Austin lawyer...
Aleksy visited Harvard in 2003 in a bid to have the bells returned. In an e-mail to Lowell House earlier this month, Eck and Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin wrote that “we will certainly have another visit from Russia to Lowell House” this academic year...