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...routinely excluded from almost all policies, it is widely available--on request--and at rates that make a lot of sense. Why don't more people have it? One problem is that they don't understand how insurers define flood. I'll get to that, and, trust me, Webster would choke on the description. An even bigger problem is that insurance agents have little incentive to write flood coverage. Meanwhile, many agents and local officials are so ill informed that they mislead entire communities into believing that flood protection is impossible...
DIED. KATIE WEBSTER, 63, blues pianist and singer who played with Otis Redding; of heart failure; in League City, Texas...
...Webster's Dictionary a bigot is defined as "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices." Given that definition, White is correct, even polite, when he refers to David Horowitz as a bigot. Anyone who examines Horowitz's writings over the years will discover a perverse obsession with black people, an obsession for which he has been paid handsomely by right-wingers whose problems with blacks are probably more profound than his. Bashing black people is a lucrative 19th century industry that has survived into the 20th. ISHMAEL REED, PUBLISHER Konch Magazine www.ishmaelreedpub.com Oakland...
Hillary Clinton can breathe easy again. On Monday, according to sources cited by several news organizations, Kenneth Starr reached a plea agreement with presidential pal Webster Hubbell that ends the independent counsel?s last pending case. The resolution of the charges against Hubbell, expected to be announced on Wednesday, gives everyone a little something to go home with: Starr got Hubbell to plead guilty to one felony count of lying about the failed Castle Grande land deal while he was a lawyer at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and also one misdemeanor count involving tax evasion. Hubbell...
...office and its $40 million-plus probes should never have been authorized by Congress in the first place -- Starr has helped make it difficult to remember that all did not always go wrong for him. In his earlier days he obtained important convictions against former Justice Department official Webster Hubbell and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker, as well as McDougal and her deceased husband, Jim. But the fact that Starr refused to relent, on even the smallest points, "will make him go away with a reputation that is somewhat less shiny than when he began," says Novak. His critics will...