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...evening of the inauguration we went to the Texas-Wyoming ball where a lounge act from Austin named Mr. Fabulous played. We saw many friends from Austin, for the most part people like us whose children were about the same age as the Bush daughters and had grown up with them. Except for the small detail of thousands of strangers milling around, it was almost like being at one of their graduation parties. Indeed we weren't there because of political ties but because this mingling of friends and the presidency was too improbable to ignore. In time the President...
...continue Clinton's strong dollar policy, a semi-sacred cow on Wall Street, but his business/manufacturing background makes him sympathetic to trade deficits. He's brave enough to have once backed an energy tax, but quick enough to have disavowed that stance soon after getting the call from the Austin oilmen. In short, he's the kind of guy who can talk about a trillion-dollar tax cut without everyone worrying that George W. Bush has ordered all White House calendars be turned back...
...story reads like the plot of a James Bond movie, but has the potential to end in the silliness of an Austin Powers flick...
...beautiful Saturday last march, Donna Bailey and two friends were headed for an outing at Enchanted Rock, a favorite climbing location north of Austin, Texas. Suddenly the Ford Explorer in which they were riding took a nasty swerve. "The tire just started separating, and my friend lost control," Bailey recalls. Although the pavement was dry, the Explorer skidded and rolled. Bailey's friends walked away. But the 43-year-old mother of two was left suspended by her seat belt, paralyzed from the neck down...
...thing, she's not interested in clothes. She has the suits she wears in public (designed by Michael Faircloth of Dallas, who will also design her Inaugural gown), and she has blue jeans, and that's it. Luckily for her, several of her closest friends from childhood live in Austin. Sometimes when she wanted a private refuge for a while, she would call a friend and say, "I'm coming over." It was not unusual to see her here or there having casual lunches. Occasionally, she would go out on the town with friends and quietly become part...