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...Valenti, who died Thursday at 85 from complications of a stroke, seemed a good fit for that antique era. A hardscrabble Texas kid who at 14 had worked as "an usher in a second-run theater in Houston called the Iris," he flew 51 combat missions for the Air Force in World War II, got a Harvard M.B.A. on the GI Bill and hooked up with a back-home politician named Lyndon Johnson. Valenti was the Vice President's press rep on a trip to Dallas in November 1963 and stood next to him on the flight back to Washington...
...Shocking is only part of it. Awkward is more of the feeling that I get. I saw homeless people back home in Houston. I’d see them downtown, under freeways, and in other places. It wasn’t the same though. It wasn’t personal in those situations. I’d see people while driving and give them money sometimes, and at other times not give them money. I never really talked to them. It was always an interaction with some distant person that I’d probably never see again...
...desert land they made fertile is tremendous.” Neither Reddi nor Anand is a writer by trade. The former was an environmental lawyer until she recently gave up working to write full-time, and the latter is the owner of Seeta Resources, a consulting firm in Houston. “For most of my life I rarely told people that I wrote,” Anand said. “I’m a right-brained person, but throughout my childhood my brain was tortured into a left-brain person. I mean, that’s what...
...Hinckner words are now echoing around the web, highlighted on gun rights websites and in e-mails, including one Texas State Senator Glenn Hegar received Tuesday morning. Hegar, a Houston-area Republican, is the author of a bill that would allow Texans with concealed weapons permits to leave their guns in their cars at work - something many employers now forbid. The bill is moving through the state legislature and, despite the opposition of the influential Texas Association of Business, may pass thanks to support from another major player, the powerful National Rifle Association (NRA). "There are two types of people...
...HOUSTON The Wren Tufted chair ($7,763), from Baker's Bill Sofield collection, embodies the mix of warmth and sophistication that Texans are partial...