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...handed pitcher whose deadly knuckleball helped him to a career 221 wins in 22 seasons and who, with his knuckleball-hurling brother Phil, famously won more games than any other pair of brothers in major league baseball history; of a brain aneurysm; in Tampa, Fla. In 1976 the longtime Houston Astro hit his only career home run--against Phil, then pitching for the Atlanta Braves...
...romance novel blogs people who know nothing about the Texas comptroller's office are passionately discussing the controversy. "It's an insult to romance writers-and readers-everywhere," says Sophie Jordan, a Houston romance writer. "It's banded everyone together-it doesn't matter to anybody if they're Democrat, Republican, or Communist-we've taken great exception to it. For him to label it pornography is labeling everybody who reads the book a pornographer...
...that means primarily women. It's no wonder many view Head's arguments as not just outrageous, but sexist. "He says that a woman cannot be considered moral and upstanding and have written romance," says Houston romance writer Jessica Trapp. "You can be a slut, or you can be prude-and there's nothing in the middle." Romance novels, she adds, promote monogamous, loving relationships. "Calling it porn totally misses the point," she says. She thinks politicians in both races are skirting real policy issues by talking about sex scenes. If they don't like a book, they should...
...independent, has outpolled both Bell and Strayhorn at times, but his bad prep and repetitive one-liners ("Why the hell not?" is his campaign slogan) are beginning to seem stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw. "This is not an election. This is a moment in history," he tells supporters. "This is what Davey Crockett died for at the Alamo...
...from Haskell. Pragmatically, he is a conservative Democrat," says former Texas G.O.P. political director Royal Massett. "They don't see him as John Connally with that charisma, or Lyndon Johnson with his sense of get it done." But what Perry loses from the corporate Republican crowd in Dallas and Houston, he gains in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley and in rural areas. While his TV ads stress border security, he works hard on relationships with Mexico and calls the idea of a border wall "ludicrous...