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Manning a complaint line requires a certain amount of patience and je ne sais quoi to listen to both sides of a story without succumbing to the urge to throttle the party that is clearly in the wrong. During the day, I do my best to control my opinions and frustration when facing obstinacy, or as I'm researching all available facts. The paper pays me to be compassionate, kind and nonjudgmental. .
Bloggers' Soapbox: The high price of globalization
Trade. That's going to be a campaign issue. I think we need another Ross Perot who will split the Republican vote again. Yeah. That's the ticket.But Ralph Nader, Palease Palease Palease, Ralph, don't run again. By the way, what is that tick in one eye about? It's as if Nader has a split personality. One side is saying "This car is unsafe at any speed" and another side is saying "Hey, let's go for a spin." .
A sampling of after-Christmas sales in the Dallas area
The presents have been opened. New Year's parties are around the corner. Yep, it is prime time to head back out to the stores and shop some more! Nordstrom Men's Half- Yearly sale continues until Jan. 6 at all its store locations. Save 33 percent or more off shoes, apparel and accessories from Hugo Boss, Burberry and Cole Haan. Too bogged down to head out to the mall? You can shop the sale online at nordstrom.com. Barneys New York at NorthPark Center has slashed prices again. Save up to 60 percent off select men's and women's ready-to-wear, shoes and accessories. At Forty Five Ten, 4510 McKinney Ave., the after-Christmas sale includes all designer women's clothing and shoes at 60 percent off.
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THEY like it spicy down here in South Carolina. Locals pour hot sauce on their catfish, on their grits, even on their greens. Their politics is spicy too. Charleston, a city with some of the richest and poorest people in the state within spitting distance, has a political scene "as gothic as New York City," a local journalist says. Some folks who live in the historic mansions in Old Charleston actually commute to New York regularly. Meanwhile North Charleston has pockets of desperate poverty, and there are people living in run-down trailers not far outside town. The polls are open today in a state that has once again reminded America of its reputation for hard-ball politics. After all the antics of the past week, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are in the hands of Democratic primary voters.
Boxer Bravo freed in domestic assault case
Norberto "Nito" Bravo Jr., 37, was booked into the Pima County Jail on Dec. 21 on misdemeanor charges of domestic violence assault, domestic violence criminal damage and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said. Bravo has since been released on his own recognizance. .
The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates
A 1986 New York Times poll found that a larger percentage of blacks than of whites believed that immigrants took jobs from Americans—but it also found blacks less likely than whites to favor immigration restrictions. In the California vote on Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot initiative that banned government benefits for illegals, blacks split nearly in half on the measure, while whites heavily supported it and Latinos opposed it. “Even confronted with evidence that immigrants are taking jobs from them, some blacks would say, ‘These are people who are fighting for their rights like us,' " says Carol Swain, a Vanderbilt University political scientist and editor of the recently published Debating Immigration. But as immigration reignited as a national issue in 2006, ambivalence has increasingly given way to opposition to current policies—and even to anger.
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Thai parliament elects pugnacious Samak as PM
Democracy campaigners also regard him with distrust, remembering his vitriolic radio campaign against student activists in the mid-1970s and support for a bloody crackdown in October 1976 that led to a coup. He then served briefly as interior minister in the military-appointed government. "He was a very outspoken, right-wing politician who attacked the student movement and justified the crackdown and killings that took place at Thammasat University," said Chulalongkorn University political scientist Giles Ungphakorn. "He said the people who died were Vietnamese agents and there was no evidence of that at all." .
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