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When Starr talks about Bill Clinton, a hint of envy creeps into his voice, and his words betray a lifelong preoccupation with resume, intellect and reputation. As a young man fresh out of Sam Houston High School in San Antonio, Texas, Starr spent two years at Harding College in Arkansas and eventually came to realize that he and this charismatic Clinton fellow had moved along the same track to Washington--except that Clinton was always ahead. Clinton was at Georgetown when Starr was at George Washington University; Clinton was a Senate aide when Starr was a House aide; Clinton landed...
Chijindu Chukwu, the smallest of eight children born to a Houston woman, died of heart and lung failure Sunday night. Odera, as she was nicknamed, was pronounced dead at 3:23 a.m. CT. The other seven babies are still listed in critical condition. The hospital reported that Odera?s condition began to deteriorate on Saturday afternoon, after doctors moved her from a conventional ventilator to an oscillator in an attempt to improve her blood oxygenation...
...lift her jaw off the counter when she opened her 12-year-old's backpack and discovered A Need to Kill, a graphic account of a child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must be sensitive to the wishes of the community. "I am a team player and a public servant," says Duhon, who 10 years ago enraged some parents when she used adult novels from a list by the National Council of Teachers...
...ABOUT NIGHTINGALES Looking back, Tennessee Williams probably found his early, unproduced play crude and lacking in poetry. Both are true. But Trevor Nunn's intense production (which had its U.S. debut at Houston's Alley Theatre) also shows off the raw power of a dramatist on the verge of greatness...
AILING. BILL BLASS, 76, fashion designer; following a mild stroke; in Houston...