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...Daniel] ate all but six ounces of a 48 ounce steak,” the coach said chuckling. “Of course, he was in Texas??that was the place...

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oshimas Introduce Judo to Harvard | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...fooled. Many of Dallas’s richest and biggest-name residents live in Preston Hollow’s enormous estates; the entire city knows it, and to perpetuate the residents’ collective identity as anything else but what they are—a smattering of Texas??s political and social elite—is to succumb to their power...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Requiem for a Neighborhood | 8/9/2009 | See Source »

...February, two city councilmen were killed in Ciudad Juarez, and the police chief was forced to resign in response to threats that a policeman would be killed every two days if he refused to do so. In addition, the city’s mayor currently resides in El Paso, Texas??troubling for Texans who fear that violence will trail him and other Mexican leaders if they seek refuge across the border. With such concerns in mind, Texas Homeland Security Director Steve McGraw has requested $135 million to help combat Mexican gangs, which he claimed...

Author: By Peter Bozzo | Title: Protecting Our Citizens | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...first four years of my life, I still feel the need to highlight the strengths of the Lone Star State as we near the end of a particularly unpopular presidency. 5. Austin, Texas. Live music capital of the world... 4. “All my Exes Live in Texas?? by George Strait 3. Sandra Cisneros and all of the other Chicano authors 2. Cacti! 1. BEVO. He’s a longhorn bull. He hangs out at University of Texas games. Once he charged an SMU cheerleader. Another time he escaped and roamed campus for a couple...

Author: By Meredith S. Steuer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Five Things About Texas | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

When I tell him about Caleb’s “hick from west Texas?? line, Alexander I. Burns ’08 chuckles and shakes his head. Alex is a friend of Caleb’s and a writer for The Politico, a Capitol Hill paper. During the Republican National Convention this summer, Alexander and Caleb were having dinner when a NBC camera descended on Caleb. The convention had been canceled that day because of Hurricane Gustav, and an NBC reporter asked Caleb, a Republican delegate, “Are you looking forward to getting things...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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