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...something of a hermit, "not very sociable," by his own account. He's seldom out and about evenings in Austin, likes to fall asleep watching sports stretched out on the sofa and has no qualms about leaving a roomful of hands unshaken in favor of downtime. His weekend getaway is 1,600 acres of dusty, dry prairie in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but chop wood and drive a pickup around to visit the heifers. The nearest outposts of civilization are the remains of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and the Dr Pepper museum. The closest...
DRIVING DANGER Summer can be the most dangerous time for a road trip, according to a new survey by progressive.com an insurance website. Of those questioned, 57% said they were more likely to drive home while overtired from a summer getaway than at other times of the year. (Each year 71,000 are injured in drowsy-driving accidents.) And 53% of drivers admitted they were more likely to break a traffic law if caught in summer traffic...
...HOWARD, trying his first case since being elected four years ago, is scrambling to salvage the remainder of his case after witnesses gave conflicting accounts about the stabbing deaths of two men last Super Bowl Sunday in Atlanta. The state's key witness, DUANE FASSETT, had driven the alleged getaway car. Pale and hyperventilating on the stand, he backed off earlier claims that he saw Lewis throw a punch and overheard co-defendants REGINALD OAKLEY and JOSEPH SWEETING admit to stabbing someone. The flip-flop testimony raised questions about whether cops rushed judgments and overlooked evidence. Prosecutors are trying...
...around George W. Bush these days is thick with ghosts. At the family getaway in Kennebunkport to attend a surprise birthday fete for mom Barbara and work on his convention speech with some advisers, Bush found himself standing at the front door and telling reporters - one more time - that those 131 people deserved to die. The Texas criminal justice system in which Bush is the last link "adequately answered innocence or guilt" in the death row cases on his watch, Bush insisted again Sunday. But the reporters are digging, and the corpses they find are telling a different tale...
Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow drove the getaway car--a dark blue Mercedes sports utility vehicle with tinted windows. She watched part of the proceedings from the sidelines, hidden by sunglasses...