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...toured the Astrodome complex in Houston, where evacuees from Hurricane Katrina were sheltered [Sept. 19]. She said, "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas ... And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." Is she scared because poor and black people might want to stay in Texas? I encourage her to live in the Astrodome for a week and then ask herself how she feels. Rene L. Dalem Charneux, Belgium...
...RIGHTS During her 1989 run for a city council seat in Dallas, Miers answered questions from a gay-rights group that was deciding whom to support in the race. Miers wasn't seeking an endorsement, but she filled out the form anyway, replying that she supported full civil rights for homosexuals and increased funding for AIDS education but opposed repealing the state's sodomy...
...President when he's already down and go on the record opposing a devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much of anything that counts; swallow hard and fall in line, and what good is their access anyway? By contrast, the Democrats--looking smug and convinced they have dodged a bullet with Miers' selection--actually had it easy. Senate minority leader Harry Reid boasted that he had recommended Miers in his chats with Bush, while most Dems just stayed quiet, letting the Republicans eat their young...
...Beck didn’t mind. He gave the third part of the call-and-response section, anyway: “Going on, feeling strong!” Ten years ago, those words had an ironic tone, poking fun at jock jams and new age self-help tapes. But now, oddly enough, they rang true. And that was beautiful...
...movie, and you won’t have to listen to lines like, “I believe in you more than in the prospect of any treasure.” The movie seems to think women are better when they don’t talk anyway. Perhaps Alba and Walker should go into mime...