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...Watts is the first African American to become a Republican leader in the House. The third-term Congressman, now clad in closely tailored suits and ostrich-skin boots, was elected chairman of the Republican Conference and in that role will help carry the Republican message to the world. The Oklahoman introduces diversity to a slate that has white men from Texas and Louisiana in the top three spots. And Republicans also hope that the football star turned Baptist minister who speaks about "politics of the human heart" will transform the party's image from preachy and vindictive to patient...
They lined up outside stores all over the nation in late November for Sevens, Garth Brooks' first CD in two years. Then they took it home and heard a swell set of 14 tunes from the sweetly pudge-faced Oklahoman who has sold 62 million albums--country music's one bona fide superstar. Sevens sold about 800,000 copies the first week, and it's not just his bosses at Capitol Records who hope Brooks keeps moving the product. Country needs a hit. Country needs...something. Like a lonesome cowpoke in some nasal old lament, it feels the redneck blues...
DIED. CHARLES WERNER, 88, Pulitzer-prizewinning cartoonist; near Indianapolis, Ind. Werner sketched for the Indianapolis Star for 47 years, but his winning image was done for the Oklahoman. Drawn shortly after the Sudetenland was handed over to Hitler in 1938, it proved sadly prophetic: a scroll marked NOBEL PEACE PRIZE lies beside a gravestone bearing the epitaph CZECHOSLOVAKIA...
Four AWACS crew members who are being held partially responsible for the downing of two U.S. helicopters in Iraq indicated that they'll fight the charges. In statements released to The Daily Oklahoman, all denied criminal conduct in the tragedy that claimed the lives of 26 people. The Air Force has accused the AWACS crew members of failing to tell F-15 pilots who shot down the helicopters the aircraft was American. One of the jet pilots has been charged with negligent homicide...
Reba McEntire, 37, is part of country's continental drift. Shouldn't country music mean the whole country, after all? Like fellow Oklahoman Brooks, McEntire is making country music bigger, taking it higher. Her last album, 1991's mournful For My Broken Heart, sold more than 2 million copies, although one track dealt with euthanasia and another with a retirement home...