Molly Ivins, Populist Texas Columnist, Dies at 62
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Molly Ivins was the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture.
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Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, whose brassy, tough-talking persona and trademark white hair cut an indelible profile in Democratic politics, died Wednesday evening at her home in Austin, surrounded by her family, her spokesman, Bill Maddox said.
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There were books advocating the public role of Christianity and the soundness of the free market, an attack on the liberal "elite" by Laura Ingraham and a memoir by Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president.
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Margaret Spellings has deep Texas roots in educational reform, the model for 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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For more than 30 years, the sharp-witted, straight shooting columnist savaged the politically powerful without losing her Texas-sized heart
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Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine for 18 years and a former State Department official, died last weekend at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 68.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Sontag, an author and activist who called herself a &quot;zealot of seriousness,&quot; died Tuesday at the age of 71.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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Former U.S. first lady Lady Bird Johnson, 94, died of natural causes at her Austin, Texas, home on Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said.
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THE legendary country music guitarist Hank Garland, who recorded with Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and Roy Orbison, has died in Florida, US media reported today.
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Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who as the Democrats&#039; vice presidential nominee in 1988 famously told rival Dan Quayle he was &quot;no Jack Kennedy,&quot; died Tuesday. He was 85.
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Molly Beth Malcolm, the former head of the Texas Democratic Party, said Wednesday she is weighing whether to enter the race for chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
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Vilma Espin, sister-in-law of convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro and one of the most powerful women in Cuba's political leadership, died on Monday in Havana. She was 77.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards dies at the age of 73 after battling oesophageal cancer.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - A tiny weekly newspaper that bills itself as President Bush's hometown paper has endorsed John Kerry for president, saying the Massachusetts senator will restore American dignity.    The Lone Star Iconoclast, which has a weekly circulation of 425, said in an editorial dated Sept...
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Vilma Espin, a key figure from Cuba's Communist revolution and wife of acting president Raul Castro, dies.
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas  - Texas humorist Kinky  Friedman, who wrote the song "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus  Any More," announced on Thursday his independent candidacy for  the state's governorship.