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...still a threat? The day I stopped worrying about my stats was the day I started winning. Everyone is still going to double- and triple-team me, and when they do that, I just make my guys better. One of my rookies asked me [after a preseason game against Houston], "Damn, Yao Ming is 7 ft. 6 in., and they double you?" I said, "Yeah, that's cause...
...Hard Can It Be?" Good question, but does he have answers? Vying to become Texas' first independent Governor since Sam Houston, the author and ex?Texas Jewboys lead singer also asks, "Why the hell not?" on the stump...
...learned. The Nature Conservancy gives tracts of land spiffy names like the Mount Hamilton Wilderness--a better ring than "1,875 square miles of environmentally critical ecosystem"--and donations perk up. Chalk that up to the power of being concrete. The Texas department of transportation casts Dallas Cowboys and Houston Astros in testosterone-soaked ads telling drivers "Don't mess with Texas," and roadside litter drops 29% in a year. Consider it a score for an emotional appeal to identity--a way of getting litterbugs to believe that real men don't throw beer cans out the window...
...Hutchison--a Bush loyalist well ahead in her bid for re-election--is expressing regret for her vote to authorize the invasion and is advocating partitioning Iraq along ethnic lines. "We have to step back and stop trying to put our American ideas onto this problem," she told the Houston Chronicle...
SENTENCED. Jeffrey Skilling, 52, vilified former CEO of Enron who was convicted in May for his role in engineering one of the biggest frauds in corporate history; to 24 years and four months in prison, the longest term yet for an Enron defendant; in Houston. At his hearing Skilling, whose arrogance and lack of remorse fueled outrage over the scandal, told the judge, "I am innocent of every one of these charges...