Word: texans
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...JUST COMES NATURAL GEORGE STRAIT Strait has 53 No. 1 country hits, a number so high that it loses meaning. Luckily, there's a track on the old Texan's new album that illuminates his commercial genius. Why Can't I Leave Her Alone starts out as your basic country stalking song, but with the melody of a rock power ballad. Strait's vocals swing from flash-free, honky-tonk lows to top-of-his-range, quavering highs. Then the song gets funny--"I've wrote her letters signed I was a fool/ She wrote me back saying go find...
Depraved, if you want to pursue your Texan (and I recommend you do, we’re worth it), you should realize that while she may eventually be interested in a roll in the hay…er, rather, your extra-long twin, it might take more than a “How you doin’?” to get there...
...revealing that when Bush eulogized former Texas Governor Ann Richards last week, he saluted not just the ability of his home state's legendary political characters to "talk Texan" but also their physical presence--"people larger than life, people that could fill the stage." The President has been on just about every imaginable stage lately. He went to Capitol Hill; gave a prime-time address; held the Rose Garden news conference; invited an anchorman into his limo, an editorialist onto Air Force One and a columnist into the Oval; held an off-the-record session for conservative radio hosts...
...many ways, Richards embodied both the old and the new Texas. She had changed the state, but the political ground had also shifted under her as conservative Democrats fled to the fast-growing Republican Party. Her defeat was a shock to the national media. After all, she was a Texan loved beyond the Red River (though to some back home, her accent always seemed suspiciously thicker on Larry King). Most of the men around the Quorum Club table are gone, and now she is too. But the image of her there remains, as a wily woman who played the game...
...That set up a Sunday coronation in Paris, along the Champs-Elysees. By custom, there's no racing on the final day if the leader has a significant advantage. Thus, an American was set to win an eighth straight Tour de France title. (A certain Texan named Armstrong won the last seven...