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...With the legislature meeting only for a few months every two years, passing an incentive package this spring was considered vital. But supporters didn't take into account the lingering resentment of the movie Glory Road, the inspirational tale of the Texas Western Miners, the first all-black college basketball team to win a national championship. In one of the movie's game scenes, the Miners played East Texas University, now Texas A&M-Commerce, and Aggies were enraged at their depiction as racist. While the Miners were derided and experienced racism during their rise to glory, the depiction...
...seats and higher handlebars--easing the strain on bottoms and backs--and even automatic gear shifting. Features like these have helped create a whole new line of bikes, known as hybrid or comfort, the latter word particularly appealing to older riders. The very hottest part of the market is road bikes, which also appeal to boomers who may be giving up on yesterday's phenomenon--less comfortable mountain bikes, a category in which sales have tailed off dramatically...
...interns drink Power Horse; the regular writers don’t touch it and marvel that we’re still alive. They understand what we don’t; Power Horse is addictive. Yet they still delight in the corruption of our youth, watching us travel the road to self-destruction. While I’ve kicked the Power Horse habit, I still occasionally crack open a can at lunch; it goes well with my sandwich. Candace I. Munroe ’10 is a Crimson arts editor in Adams House. She occasionally also ventures into the dark world...
...Democrats are predictably skeptical of the party's recent "spend wisely" hosannas. "It's a miracle," says Wisconsin Rep. David Obey, sarcastically. "It's a St. Paul conversion on the road to Damascus." Obey, chairman of the House appropriations committee, was the architect of a plan to keep earmarks secret until the appropriations bills passed both houses, at which point they would be all but impossible to remove individually via votes on the house floor, as traditionally has been the case. Republicans were outraged at the maneuver and, sensing an opportunity, called out their opponents for a lack of transparency...
...Danish society used to a be a consensus society," says Khader. "But in the last few years Danish politicians [have] forgotten the centre. We want to go back to the middle of the road...