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...This Saturday, the two crews once again demonstrated their competitive spirit, fighting respectively to maintain the heavyweight Compton Cup and the lightweight Haines Cup, honors they won last year. Both crews held onto their prizes, keeping them in Newell Boathouse for the second year...
...39th U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000. He has published nineteen books of poetry, prose, and translations. Adam L. Palay ’11, a member of the Advocate and the event’s organizer, said that the reading was a change from those usually held at the Advocate, as the organization usually holds more intimate readings by authors and poets, rather than collaborations between literary figures and musicians. “We usually don’t have a performance like that,” he said. “So I think it?...
...tenure. "Your place in history is secure," Masset wrote in a recent analysis piece for the Quorum Report, an insider political newsletter that circulates out of Austin, the state capital. "You would be freed up to do great things on the national scene where real power is now held by media stars such...
...front lines, "oppressive Washington" and states' rights and cries of "Texas not taxes!" ironically comes as Texans get ready to commemorate on April 21 the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of Texas' fight for independence from Mexico. It is also the day legislative hearings will be held in Austin on Texas' 10th Amendment resolution - so far, about half the members of the house of representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of the measure, which affirms Texas sovereignty under the 10th Amendment and serves notice to the Federal Government "to cease and desist certain mandates." Meanwhile, Texas house...
Aziz vowed to pursue a non-violent campaign to bring Shari'a to the rest of the country, yet in a press conference held Thursday he defended his actions, and those of his students, in the run-up to the siege, saying that they acted peaceably, and only turned to violence when the military moved in. When asked if he would allow his students to take up arms once again, he responded, "If we are pushed to the wall we would have no option but to defend ourselves...