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Through change, there is continuity. From patrician New Yorker and future U.S. president to Chinese-speaking gay redneck Canadian computer geek to Indian-Muslim-Texan football player dating a Korean to Israeli resident of Newton concentrating in East Asian studies, one thing thankfully remains constant: the Asian fetish...
DIED. GEORGE CHRISTIAN, 75, last press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson; of lung cancer; in Austin, Texas. Johnson called Christian--a loyal, easygoing fellow Texan--"unflappable George," while others labeled him a yes-man. Still, he won admiration for his evenhanded treatment of reporters, whether friend...
...cramped Bill’s Bar was packed with sweaty young punks when the Riddlin’ Kids took the stage on the night of Saturday, Nov. 23. As the Texan band ripped into one of many songs about insane girlfriends and heartache, the crowd responded in typical punk fashion: moshing, jumping and singing along loudly. Clint Baker (vocals, guitar) encouraged the mayhem from atop the stage: “We love to jump around and go crazy up here. Feel free to join in!” Dustin Stroud (guitar, vocals) and Marc Johnson (bass) contributed by jumping...
...Texan Erle Nye seemed like a sharpshooter when his firm, Texas Utilities, won a bidding war for assets of the British power company the Energy Group in 1998. A respected veteran energy executive, CEO Nye anted up $7.6 billion to win the deal. Soon after, a cartoon in the British press depicted a Texas Utilities meter reader ringing a doorbell--dressed as a cowboy...
...standing with the president on national security. In fact, some Democratic candidates have gone to great lengths to compare themselves to Bush, like Ron Kirk, a Texas Democrat running for Senate, whose campaign machine has ceaselessly churned out press releases talking about Kirk’s affection for the Texan president. Likewise, Republicans have been distancing themselves from now-unpopular notions like privatizing social security. In these cases, however, candidates has been generally evasive over what they believe and have instead relied on arousing public suspicions over the true beliefs of his opponent...