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...civil lawsuit claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of Kilpatrick's former bodyguards. During the court proceedings, one of the officers revealed Kilpatrick's affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, a childhood friend who had assisted his successful 1996 run for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. (His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, vacated the seat to run for national office; she is now a U.S. representative and chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus...
...American love story between East High's basketball star, Troy, and math ace Gabriella has proven a triumph not just for Disney - which has reaped around $680 million in retail sales from the franchise to date - but for cultural globalization. In Latin America, HSM concerts play 50,000-seat stadiums. Swedes and Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Poles have been among the millions to take in HSM: The Ice Tour, which has three worldwide touring companies. The stage show has played in dozens of cities worldwide, including Beirut, where it premiered during violent clashes. On HSM web forums, fans from Madagascar...
...once solid conservative home of the much loved/much reviled (take your pick) former Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay. After years of bringing home the bacon for voters in bow tie-shaped district south of Houston, DeLay, under a cloud of ethics allegations and still-unresolved criminal charges, abandoned his seat mid-election in 2006, leading to a Republican succession battle that resembled a circular firing squad. Out from the smoke came Nick Lampson, a moderate Democrat who had been drawn out of his old neighboring congressional seat in DeLay's mid-decade redistricting power play. Lampson noted his family...
...DeLay's machinations, the political ironies in the district rise as high as Ike's storm surge. In the former majority leader's redrawing of the Texas map, he pulled the Johnson Space Center and NASA, a pork-rich environment, into District 22. And after winning DeLay's old seat, the Democratic leadership restored Lampson seniority based on his four terms representing his old adjacent district, which had been dismantled by DeLay. That led to Lampson serving on three committees vital to the district-agriculture, science and technology, and transportation- which helped him win the endorsement of the influential Farm...
...what it used to be," said University of Houston political scientists Richard Murray. Since 2006, when DeLay abandoned his seat, a large number of middle class African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans have moved into the 22nd's growing suburban areas southwest of Houston, around DeLay's old home base, Sugarland. Murray said. Asians, many of them professional and small businessowners with roots in India and Vietnam, are becoming an important force in local elections, particularly in Fort Bend County, the heart of the district where the sugar fields are giving way to suburban growth. Asian political participation has grown...