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Texas sure is an exciting place. I'd forgotten how wild and trigger-happy my home state was until I returned to Houston last week for a little rest and leisure. In the span of the three days after Thanksgiving, we Texans got caught up in a real-life Western featuring a daring prison escape, several shootouts and a manhunt reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde...
Seaboard is a publicly owned company, but in fact it is the fiefdom of a reclusive Boston-area family (more on that later). A sort of mini-conglomerate, Seaboard has interests in hogs, strawberries, chickens, shrimp, salmon, flour and wine. Its operations span four continents and nearly two dozen countries and range from cargo ocean liners to sugarcane. And like other profitable businesses, it collects subsidies--or, more accurately, corporate welfare--from local, state and federal governments. Indeed, officials trip over one another in the rush to extend taxpayer support to Seaboard--from the Federal Government's Overseas Private Investment...
...Ozment, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, says he is concerned that that a world history course would simply have to cover too much material. Both Western history and world history classes, are, by definition, survey courses, requiring vast amounts of information to be condensed into the span of a year. Naturally, the amount of information in a world history class is much greater...
...House after the G.O.P. had endured four decades in the wilderness not knowing such basic things as the name of the Capitol police chief. As a young legislator, he made his mark on the House floor after-hours, when it was almost empty except for the C-Span cameras. He was a grinning nobody, the head of a band of brothers called the Conservative Opportunity Society--he and Bob Walker and Connie Mack and then Congressman Trent Lott, and they didn't have a dollar and didn't know nobody and acted like a bunch of kids in a clubhouse...
...face is ruddy from the wind and the sun, and he's smiling broadly. His new boxed set, Tracks (Columbia), featuring 66 songs, 56 of them previously unreleased, is due in stores this Tuesday, and Springsteen is eager to talk about it. The songs on the four-CD set span his career; a great many of them are strong songs, perhaps even hit songs, but they are songs that were left off Springsteen's albums nonetheless, for space reasons, thematic reasons and sometimes no good reason at all. "One reason I was interested in doing this is I wanted this...