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...tobacco plan got bottled up in the Arkansas house. So he put it before voters, and the referendum passed, 64% to 36%, in 2000. Huckabee also helped persuade voters to increase their own gas taxes to fund long-overdue highway repairs in 1999. The previous Governor, Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's Democratic successor, had tried and failed to pass a highway program...
...a?os atr?s, Sara Mart?nez Tucker era la primera y ?nica ejecutiva hispana en AT&T. Pero su trabajo no la llenaba. "Hab?a llegado a los 40 y no ten?a ni idea de lo que quer?a hacer con mi vida?, recuerda. De manera que se acogi? a un retiro temprano y prob? su suerte en una docena de proyectos sin fines de lucro. Uno de ellos fue el Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), que en aquel tiempo distribu?a $3 millones de d?lares al a?o entre estudiantes latinos necesitados. Y como descubri? desde su puesto en aquel trabajo, esta cantidad...
...American life where professionals and hustlers, up-and-comers and down-and-outers, cross paths. "It's an urban comedy," says Ridley. "But it's also an urbane comedy. We do jokes about selling CDs out of the trunk of your car, but we've also got jokes about Tucker Carlson." Even more so, this appealingly motormouthed show is a celebration of language--boasting, blathering, put-down and pontification--and the new cast has an easy rapport and naturalness. It doesn't always work: a subplot in which Calvin teaches a Nigerian employee to talk dirty thuds badly...
...haven't kept up with the best band of the past decade, Jumpers is a 4 1/2-min. refresher course. The lyrics--about considering a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge--read smart on the page, but they take on a tragic intensity in Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker's interwoven vocals...
...rear of the tent, and features a stylish, freestanding bathtub open to the sky. Excursions include visits to rock art and fossil sites and to Chambers Pillar, a sandstone monolith 40 km away. There are also hunting tours, where tribal elders instruct you in the gathering of "bush tucker"?local foods like grubs and wild plants. Meanwhile, at Titjikala's art center, guests can meet local artists as they busily transmute the desert's vivid colors into pieces destined for big city galleries...