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USA: CNN.com - Woman with altered passport detained - Jul 28, 2004: Well, at least they caught Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed, with her South African passport that had six pages ripped out of it. Wonder what stamps were on theose pages?

USA: The New York Times reports that former Texas Governor Ann Richards had some good remarks at the DNC: shotgun wedding! I love it!

“You know, for American women in a Republican majority, their president has been like a marriage that’s gone from bad to worse. You know the story. The guy has a great line, he’s sort of cute, he tells you that life together will be bliss, and then in a few years he’s snoring on the couch while the TV blares on the fifth football game of the day and the neighbors are screaming about the yard that never gets mowed, and there’s a car up on blocks in the driveway, and your household budget is just stretched to the limit, and he’s spending all the money on hunting trips, a new shotgun and a camo jumpsuit, and you’re standing there at the sink thinking, ‘I must have been out of my mind!’ So here we are, almost four years past our shotgun wedding with this White House, and like we say in Texas: Honey, it’s time to split the sheets and sign the legal papers.”

USA: Yahoo! News - DeLay’s Corporate Fundraising Investigated: “But DeLay and his colleagues also face serious legal challenges: Texas law bars corporate financing of state legislature campaigns, and a Texas criminal prosecutor is in the 20th month of digging through records of the fundraising, looking at possible violations of at least three statutes. A parallel lawsuit, also in the midst of discovery, is seeking $1.5 million in damages from DeLay’s aides and one of his political action committees — Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC) — on behalf of four defeated Democratic lawmakers.”

USA: CNN.com - Texas executes inmate prominent in ‘Thin Blue Line’ case - Jul 1, 2004: “‘Sir, in honor of a true American hero: Let’s roll,’ David Ray Harris said when asked if he had a final statement. ‘Let’s Roll’ were the words a passenger was heard saying over a cell phone before attacking the hijackers aboard doomed Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.”

Sports: From the Austin American-Statesman, Who says the Baylor Bears can’t shoot? Then again, they’re used to gunfire in Waco, right? You shouldn’t dance at Baylor University, but a former basketball player shooting a current member of the team? Perhaps Baylor wants to stay competitive with Texas A&M’s stupid bonfire in the Big 12’s senseless student killings tournament: “‘I’m shocked, obviously,’ the [Baylor] coach said. ‘I don’t want to believe it. But do I put anything past young people today? No. I don’t want to believe it… . I hope it’s not true.’”