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...investigators that the Bishop, meant to terrify, not kill - at least not yet. Still, while the devices lacked some components, they could have exploded from static electricity or "even a transmission from a handheld radio," according to Fred Burton, a former State Department counterterrorism expert, now with Stratfor, an Austin-based private security and intelligence agency that is working in conjunction with the FBI in its investigation...
Students gathered last night at Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall for an advance screening of the upcoming PBS documentary “Race to Execution.” The film focuses on two stories of African-Americans on death row. Madison Hobley was sentenced to death for an arson case that took the lives of seven people. Robert Tarver was convicted for the murder of a white businessman. According to the film’s producers, the film is meant to highlight a bias in the American legal system with respect to prosecuting and executing minorities convicted...
ROBERT G. TABOR Austin, Texas...
DIED. Molly Ivins, 62, acerbic commentator, whose columns skewered the high and mighty; after a seven-year fight with breast cancer; in Austin, Texas. Ivins, who famously referred to George W. Bush as "Shrub," could write with heartfelt earnestness yet just as naturally refer to height-challenged politicians as "runts with attitudes." The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in a recent column on Bush's troop surge, offered what could serve as her epitaph: "Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous...
...Molly and then Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock (as canny a politician as ever lived), his personnel director Charles Miles and Ann Richards were leaning on the back wall of a popular watering hole during a typical Austin political shindig. A local county official from east Texas, "some old racist judge," as Molly called him, approached. Bullock, who had yet to swear off drinking, introduced the official "to my good friend Molly Ivins." The man was aghast, but he was taken aback further when Bullock introduced him next to his personnel director, Miles, an African American. Then Richards leaned forward, proffered...