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...of transportation in Texas, you have to drive out to the prairie north of Austin, past the sprawling plants of Dell and Samsung, to the farthest suburbs, where wild grass and cornfields nuzzle up to McMansions with their perfect green lawns. There, giant earthmovers, their wheels taller than a Texan in his boots, are ripping up the gummy, black soil to lay a 49-mile stretch of concrete tollway. State Highway 130, at a cost of $1.5 billion, is the biggest highway project under way in the U.S. today. It is also the first test in concrete for the Trans...
Gonzales' appointment is a vintage Bush move--controversial, virtually impossible to stop and bristling with tactical advantage. Social conservatives don't love Gonzales the way they adored Ashcroft, chiefly because the Texan is more moderate on abortion (he sided with a 17-year-old in a parental-notification case in 2000) and on affirmative action (he pushed the White House to take a softer position against college-admissions quotas). On civil liberties and national security, liberals say he is, if anything, more hard-line than Ashcroft...
...some, Tsurimi’s characterization of Bush is difficult to believe in the classroom setting. “He seemed very Texan, so people sort of expected him to be very conservative,” admits Shea. “But he was not an ideologue; he was tolerant. [He] needed to have enough of an open mind to engage people that had an entirely opposite idea.” Although Koyama says that “I enjoyed [Tsurimi’s] class,” he says Tsurimi’s comments seemed extreme, particularly the comments...
...partiality of its viewers who tune in everyday. It’s a proven fact that people the world over tend to consume media that share their own personal opinions. A pro-democracy, anti-Israel Lebanese person watches Al-Jazeera for the same reason a pro-life, pro-Bush Texan watches Fox. Al-Jazeera has to cater to its viewership or risk becoming worse than biased: unwatched...
...contributions that had been the source of so much political woe. Yet, on both sides of the political spectrum, groups quickly mobilized to find ways around the legislation, establishing all sorts of loophole groups that fell under the radar of soft-money restraints. The Swift Boat Veterans and their Texan philanthropists are simply a flagrant example of the way in which these groups are succeeding in their efforts to skirt rules and manipulate the media...