AUSTIN, Texas -- The economy is a mess. We are now in the second dip of a double-dip recession. ("Looks like a W," say the economists, another reason why economists are not famous for their humor.) Six and a quarter trillion dollars has...
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24 September 2002
You might remember the old movie "Twelve Angry Men," starring
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and E.G. Marshall. Most of the dramatic
film takes place inside a jury room as a dozen people deliberate at
the end of a murder trial. It's...
20 September 2002
BAGHDAD -- When Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz described
the box that Washington has meticulously constructed for Iraq, he put it
this way: "Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't."
It would be difficult to...
It would be difficult to...
18 September 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- (SET ITAL) "What's so interesting is that he's given in at the ideal moment: really early, when it messes us up." -- Kenneth Pollack, an Iraq expert at the Brookings Institute, on Saddam Hussein's agreeing to weapons...
17 September 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- Billie Carr, the godmother of Texas liberals, passed last week at 74. Sue Lovell of Harris County Democrats said she knew Billie was gone when she leaned over the bed and said, "Billie, should I get you a mail ballot?" and...
14 September 2002
If you call the toll-free number on the TV screen during one of
those upbeat Army commercials, a large envelope will arrive with a white
t-shirt inside. On the back is a slogan in big block letters: "AN ARMY
OF ONE."
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