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...APPOINTED. DEL HARRIS, 66, former Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets coach; to lead China's national basketball team, the first foreigner chosen to do so; in Beijing. The Chinese squad, led by the U.S.-based National Basketball Association's All-Star Yao Ming, is expected to be a medal contender at this summer's Athens Olympics...
George W. Bush has long had a habit of giving people nicknames--and perhaps that's because he picked up a few along the way himself. Like the one he earned in 1972, when he left his home in Houston to work on the long-shot Senate campaign of Winton M. (Red) Blount in Alabama. Bush, then 26, would often turn up at campaign headquarters in Montgomery around lunchtime, recount his late-night exploits and brag about his political connections, according to a Blount campaign worker. All that made him slow to win over the Alabama crowd, who began...
...Cornell: Currently riding a four-game winning streak and tied with the Engineers for third place, Cornell’s toughest remaining game will be played at RPI’s Houston Fieldhouse. It’s the only game I can see the Big Red losing...
...stories raising questions about his Vietnam-era service in the Texas Air National Guard never got much traction. In the Republican primaries, John McCain forbid his staff to exploit the fact that while their guy was being beaten senseless in the Hanoi Hilton, Bush was safe at home, protecting Houston from foreign attack. Al Gore steered clear too. It was not until a week before Election Day in November 2000 that Gore surrogates accused Bush of having gone AWOL--absent without leave--for an entire year while in the Guard. But few journalists, and fewer voters, paid much attention...
...missed all the excitement in Houston, but I guess the parade makes up for it,” he said...