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...Samuel Pierce. Citing Wilson on 24 counts of fraud, conspiracy and false statements, a federal grand jury charged him with conspiring, after he left HUD for an investment firm, to steer $46 million in grants intended for poor urban areas to three housing projects developed by his business partner, Texan Leonard Briscoe...
...TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Joseph A. Califano Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $25). L.B.J.'s closest aide on domestic policy during the mid-'60s delivers a hard, pure nugget of the 36th President. Califano provides graphic reports of the bullying and lying that ultimately consumed the Texan, but also shows the larger purpose -- the civil rights campaign, the legislative battles on health, education and housing -- that struggled within the tortured...
This year, Fagan lives with one other Black Texan, a Chinese-American from a Washington, D.C. suburb and a Canadian Jew. And she's made a "learning experience" out of that...
...made megahits. And it certainly helps that women have long since proved that they can handle both temperamental actors and macho crews. The worst problem Donoghue had on Paradise was a well-meaning guy who called her "honey." It wasn't sexism, she thinks, but regionalism -- he was a Texan and suitably abashed when the error of his habitual ways was pointed...
...list would be longer if sheer competence had been the only criterion. Secretary of State James Baker, for example, is eminently well qualified to take over the White House if need be. But as a fellow Texan, Baker would offer Bush little help on the G.O.P. ticket -- and he is not self-effacing enough for the second-banana role. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole is out of the running because he and Bush still nurse bruises from their bitter fight for the Republican nomination. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the right wing's favorite for Vice President...