- Texas (Still) Needs Farenthold
- Robert Leleux writes about the remarkable Sissy Farenthold, a groundbreaker who was the first woman nominated for the vice presidency, the only woman in the Texas House in 1971, and the face of Texas liberalism for a generation.
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- Fear and Doping in Iraq |
- In Babylon by Bus, Ray Lemoine and Jeff Neumann provide an original perspective on the war in Iraq through stories of their firsthand experiences and observations.
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- Rendering Caesar |
- Greg Woolf's �Et Tu Brute? A Short History of Political Murder� examines historical renderings, reinterpretations and stagings of Caesar's assassination and why it still matters today.
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- The Economist |
- Historians have written so many books about Martin Luther King, Jr. that it might seem there is little left to say about the man or the American civil rights movement many think he personified. Thomas F. Jackson, a former researcher and consulting editor of the King Papers Project at Stanford University, finds otherwise, casting King as arguably the most important, and certainly the most eloquent, American political economist of the 20th century.
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- A Redneck State of Mind |
- San Antonio journalist John MacCormack comments on his visit to the Texas Redneck Games. Beyond the gimme caps, heavy drinking, and blue collar rowdiness, exactly what makes a redneck in this enlightened age?
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- Long Past Enough |
- Every day in Mexico there are an estimated 10 kidnappings. �Ya Basta! is an intimate documentary that captures the harrowing stories of six. It�s also a film about an antiquated judicial system incapable of dealing with a sudden and vicious wave of crime. And hopelessly corrupt police. And a nascent victims-rights movement. And efforts to reform the police.
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- Butterflies and Spiderwebs |
- Four years ago, Austin filmmaker Laura Dunn got a surprising call from filmmaker and longtime Austinite Terrence Malick asking her direct a documentary on the fate of Barton Springs, a natural pool in the heart of Austin. Recently premiered at the Sundance Festival, The Unforeseen has provoked strong reactions from environmentalists.
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- The Need to Believe |
- The Observer presents an excerpt from a speech delivered by Bernard Rapoport at this 90th birthday party on July 17, 2007.
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- Home Again |
- Emily DePrang goes back to Pearland, the hometown she left without plans of returning, and finds it may not be as forgettable as she thought.
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- Made to Last |
- Former Observer Associate Editor Dick Reavis writes about his beloved 30-year-old Volkswagen Super Beetle.
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