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...Americans should remain loyal to our military, including our Commander in Chief and those directly in charge of the troops in Iraq. If we rally around our military and its leaders when the going gets tough, they will make us proud, as they always have. Mike Gallagher Houston...
That’s because many kids don’t even finish high school in the Houston neighborhood that the family—which immigrated to this country from Mexico City when Maribel was 13—calls home...
...Ferris Bueller guy,” law student Anjan Choudhury said, referring to Stein’s much-parodied role as a dull high school economics teacher calling attendance in John Hughes’ classic, Ferris Bueller’s Day OfChoudhury, a third-year law student from Houston, is one of this year’s four HLS class marshals, who are in charge of planning Class Day events. He said graduating students were solicited in the fall for suggestions of Class Day speakers...
...women, representing telecom, engineering and construction firms from all over the city, had come to find out why the fruits of Iraq's reconstruction have so far eluded them. Two months ago, Halim says, he approached Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), a unit of the Houston company Halliburton, hoping that his construction and engineering firm, Gulf Bank, could be part of the massive effort to rehabilitate Iraq's oil industry. He couldn't even get his call returned. "We are angry," he says. "They always say the priority is Iraqi companies, but as a matter of fact, in the land...
...every week, flights take off from Houston with new drivers. It infuriates Stephen Heering, 33, sitting in the safety of his home north of Houston in the town of Magnolia. Heering, a driver, needed to pay bills and save for his son's college education. He lasted just 4 1/2 months--until Iraqi insurgents bombed his truck and nearly killed him at gunpoint. "KBR said it would get better, but people started getting hurt bad," he says. "They'll find new meat. I guess that's the way it is in the money world. If it makes 'em money, they...