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...been U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's middle name ever since she floated the notion that she might challenge fellow Republican Governor Rick Perry in the Texas gubernatorial race. She made hints about the 2006 race but backed off, then did the same for the one coming in 2010. On Wednesday, July 29, after months of will she/won't she, Hutchison went on a Texas talk-radio show and stated in a formal announcement that she would launch her campaign in August and leave the Senate in "October or November." But just as suddenly, as the news spread through Texas...
MARCH 29, 2009 Fritz Henderson takes over as CEO after longtime chief Rick Wagoner's ouster...
...other things, such as comedy and fighting lions. Christians aren't funny because they tend to be literal-minded. Also because they're sad about having had sex with only one person. So when Kevin Roose, author of the excellent new book The Unlikely Disciple, told me that Rick Warren's giant Saddleback Church has its own improv group, for the first time in my life, I felt my calling. I may not be the Woody Allen or Jon Stewart of the secular world, but in the land of the unfunny Christian, the one-joked Jew is king. (See pictures...
...full house of 160 took their seats in a small meeting room next to the church, we gathered to pray about our performance. Preshow praying, as most professional comedians will tell you, is not quite as confidence-building as shots of Cuervo. (See TIME's 2008 cover on Rick Warren...
...course of the next century on renewable energy technologies. No country, nor even any American state, can expect to stake a leading position in this emerging industry unless there is a strong base of domestic consumption underpinning the industry. One person who seems to have gotten the message Governor Rick Perry seems to have gotten that message, along with his Republican cohorts in Texas, some of whom remain unconvinced that global warming is even a man-made threat to the planet but are nonetheless aggressively seeking to attract high-tech renewable energy companies. Not surprisingly, Texas has long since surpassed...