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...Although the storm is expected to hit the coast at Port Lavaca, between Corpus Christi and Galveston, the National Weather Service in Galveston warned that Rita could be a so-called "perfect storm", inundating Galveston and parts of Houston, including possibly downtown. Galveston residents started voluntarily evacuating Monday, a full five days before the storm was expected to hit. Wednesday, it became mandatory. Mindful of the problems in New Orleans, the city had buses available Wednesday morning to carry people out of the city. Early in the week, Governor Rick Perry recalled the Texas National Guard as well as Texas...
...depression. Women flipped through piles of used bibs and picture books. Men sat in circles and vowed to return to the city of their birth, before scattering to cities beyond the Louisiana state line, the furthest many had ever traveled. One woman, offered the chance to relocate to Corpus Christi, Tex. by a delegation of local leaders, raised her hand: Where was Corpus Christi, anyway...
Long before his son Ben appeared as the quiet lieutenant in the documentary Gunner Palace, long before a Baghdad bomb took Ben's life on Nov. 1, 2003, the elder Colgan, of Kent, Wash., was an antiwar activist, a member of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. But Ben's independent streak led him to join the Army just out of high school. His death has made Colgan's personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think...
...account. Approximately $350 million more is apparently tied up in five New York properties, including Manhattan's Crown Building and Lindenmere, a Long Island estate. In Texas, Marcos allegedly controls $13 million worth of property in Tarrant County, and has parcels of land valued at $19.2 million in Corpus Christi. It appears that there may also be as many as 200 properties in California owned by Marcos' associates and cronies, including houses in San Francisco and land in San Diego, as well as 30 holdings valued at $8 million in Los Angeles County that are owned by either Marcos' sister...
...police officers standing guard to ensure that a human being died a slow death while her family watched in horror and was powerless to do anything to help. Was this the U.S. in 2005 or a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s? Alan W. Garett Corpus Christi, Texas...