Word: texans
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...SMITH, elderly Texan who ran for the U.S. House...
Gregory Summers' last request sounded like the far-flung pinings of a romantic poet. Just before he died, the 48-year-old told friends he wanted Tuscany to be his final resting place. Summers' burial plea, though, was not that of a sentimental soul, but of a Texan triple-murder convict on death row. And Tuscany held no special place in his heart...
...industrial stretch of flatlands east of Pisa, Cascina is hardly the postcard Italy of undulating olive groves. With an auto-parts store behind the cemetery and the stripped face of a gravel mine in the distance, the burial service last week somehow seemed more Texan than Tuscan. Summers was wearing a pink Wrangler cowboy shirt and black pants inside the closed white coffin now pulled beside the back of the black Mercedes hearse...
...Brown Daily Herald The Cavalier Daily The Cornell Daily Sun The Daily Californian The Daily Evergreen The Daily Illini The Daily Orange The Daily Pennsylvanian The Daily Princetonian The Daily Reveille The Daily Sundial The Daily Texan The Daily Trojan The Harvard Crimson The Michigan Daily The Oregon Daily Emerald The Stanford Daily The Yale Daily News
...Ambassador to Austria, the heiress to an oil fortune, and the founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government—offers a fascinating glimpse into the bizarre lives of the outrageously wealthy. She tells the stories of her larger than life Texan childhood, her work as a champion of women’s issues and social justice, her stint as an ambassador, and her family life involving three children and two marriages...