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...civil rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag vanity plates and a Stars and Bars silk-screened on the back windshield...
...Texas' pine-covered Eastern District, where failed thrifts are about as common as pickup trucks, U.S. Attorney Robert Wortham has a problem. Some 30 financial institutions have already gone belly-up or come under Government supervision; 59 more are under investigation for fraud. But Wortham, with a team of five FBI agents, doesn't have the manpower needed to unravel the bankers' dastardly deeds. "I've begged. I've pleaded. I've complained up the ladder," said Wortham at a hearing last week before the House Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. "I could ask my mother...
...revenue fails to keep up with inflation, Parsons says, communities are forced to reduce education budgets and cut back on basic services such as police protection and garbage pickup...
...started screaming, and I made people talk to the police," he recalls. "I knew everybody they named as the shooters. I knew all their families." Rodriguez, 32, helped investigators gather testimony and even permitted police to question his eleven-year-old son, who saw the alleged killers in a pickup truck...
...appears roughly a third of the way through the text. No matter. This book is far more than a standard piece of genealogical sleuthing. Half its fascination lies in chapters that describe milieus rather than biographical detail. Frontier living in Tasmania when Reg was a boy, the realities of pickup vaudeville in the outback, the grim privations of war in Malta when he served there, the ins and outs of selling jewelry or newspaper ads or working military codes -- whatever the father encountered, the daughter has made...