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...first black policeman in Eufaula, Okla., and dressed as a child in just two pairs of jeans (the "good pair" had patches), 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...
More investors, especially among the elderly, are getting suckered into scams, losing money on shady penny-stock schemes, foreign-currency deals and even ostrich farms, the North American Securities Administrators Association said last week. To protect yourself, steer clear of high-pressure telemarketing pitches, or at least check out the firm with state regulators, whose names and numbers are available...
...renaissance of the wine routes has brought about greater sensitivity to tourists' needs. Country hotels and bed-and-breakfasts measure up to a high standard, and many Cape estates include scenic picnic facilities or restaurants with decent cuisine--mostly European, with some South African touches such as ostrich filet, Cape Malay curry and water-lily and lamb casserole. Service is excellent, and the local wine is abundant, inexpensive and palatable. Several of the score of multistar restaurants are among the country's Top 10. Indeed, the mountain-ringed valley of Franschoek, where French Huguenot settlers arrived 300 years ago, bringing...
...convict outfits. He's the man who blacked out all television for inmates except G-rated flicks, the Weather Channel, Newt Gingrich videos and (opponents of torture may want to look away here) C-SPAN. He put up a neon vacancy sign at the tent city--get it?--served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink boxer shorts to civilians are a statewide sensation that helps pay for Joe's volunteer posse...
...aggrieved vegetable and meat producers are lining up to sue. The nation's second food-disparagement suit, also to be tried in Amarillo, pits emu farmers against the Honda car company. The farmers say the emu was slammed by a commercial featuring a hucksterish emu rancher who promotes the ostrich-like bird as "the pork of the future." The ad never calls emu meat unsafe, but Fort Worth attorney John Scott says its portrayal of the birds as disreputable has dealt his clients a hard blow. In these litigious times, insult an ugly, flightless, 6-ft.-tall bird...