AUSTIN -- And a happy New Year to all the friendly folks at the
Henry Cisneros' special prosecutor's office, now coming up on its seventh
year. Cisneros, who left office five ago as Clinton's housing secretary, is
back in San Antonio...
08 January 2002
AUSTIN -- The president has taken to saying peculiar things
again. "There are no shades of gray in our war on terrorism," he announced
the other day. Excuse me, but if you've ever seen anything grayer than some
of our warlord allies in...
03 January 2002
AUSTIN -- Here comes everyone's favorite season: The tree is
down, the bills are due, January, February, Ry-Krisp and cottage cheese.
T'is the festive season for one of our nation's leading industries --...
T'is the festive season for one of our nation's leading industries --...
03 January 2002
If my memory is correct, it was a Jerry Lewis movie. More than 40
years later, I still remember the scenes of a grown man so gullible that
he believed his television. What a laugh riot! The guy dashed out to shop
every time a commercial...
02 January 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- Ecuador recently moved to the dollar standard for its
economy in an effort to bail itself out of one of those credit-flight crises
that seems to afflict countries like a case of flu going around the globe.
The...
28 December 2001
The last pages of a calendar remind us that life is fleeting. All we
have at any moment is the present, filtered with memory.
Meanwhile, music -- capable of powerfully evoking what's past but not quite gone -- can be a...
Meanwhile, music -- capable of powerfully evoking what's past but not quite gone -- can be a...
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