Word: texans
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With his engaging middlebrow charm, deep religious convictions and deceptive shrewdness, Blair has more in common with a certain Texan President than with some of his British colleagues. And Bush could ask for no more steadfast friend in Europe. But Blair's close ties with America could cost him friends at home...
EUROBLUES Driver's Seat They call him the Texan: Paolo Fresco, the white-haired Fiat chairman, who last week staved off an apparent coup orchestrated by an Agnelli brother, Italy's most powerful investment bank and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. When news leaked last Monday that Fresco and CEO Gabriele Galateri were on their way out, Fresco fought back with a fiery interview in La Repubblica, saying he needed to stay to help save the company and that Berlusconi had "gone mad." By Friday, Fiat's board reconfirmed Fresco as chairman. Now Fiat needs to stem losses ahead of what...
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...