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• Obama escapes Clinton debate unscathed

  - 2008-02-21

  AUSTIN, Texas AFP — Barack Obama escaped unscathed from a key debate which Democratic foe Hillary Clinton hoped to use to slow his surging White House quest, 12 days before their next electoral showdown. On another day of high drama in the relentless 2008 election, presumptive Republican nominee John...

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• Blandina Cardenas: president, University of Texas, Pan American

  - 2007-04-01

  Run down the resume of Dr. Blandina "Bambi" Cardenas, president of the University of Texas-Pan American, and you will come across a non-stop record of achievements in education and civil rights. "When I think about all of this, what is amazing to me is the staying power," she laughs...

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• Remarks honoring the University of Texas at Austin 2005 NCAA Football Champions

  - 2006-02-20

  February 14, 2006 The President. Please be seated, except for you guys up there. [Laughter] Welcome to the White House. January 4, 2006, is a day that a lot of Texas fans will never forget. I called one of those Texas fans, who shall remain anonymous. I said, "'How...

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• Meeting on Arlington, Texas, University Is behind Schedule.

  - 2003-12-17

  By Patrick Mcgee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17--ARLINGTON, Texas--When Tarrant County legislators announced an agreement to keep the University of Texas at Arlington in the UT System, they heralded the lieutenant governor's involvement as a force...

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• Finalist for University of Texas-Arlington Presidency Aims to Boost Research.

  - 2003-10-22

  By Patrick McGee, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 22--ARLINGTON, Texas--Bob Smith said Tuesday that if he is chosen to lead the University of Texas at Arlington, he would improve academics and research by hiring more tenured and tenure-track...

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• Arlington, Texas, University Chief Fights Budget-Cut Plans.

  - 2003-03-05

  By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 5--AUSTIN, Texas--The acting president of the University of Texas at Arlington told a legislative panel Tuesday that the fast-growing institution would be devastated if lawmakers slashed its budget by...

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• Texas Colleges Contemplate Cutbacks in 'Special-Item' Areas.

  - 2003-02-24

  By Linda K. Wertheimer, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 24--AUSTIN, Texas-The future is murky for a University of Texas observatory that draws 100,000 stargazers to a West Texas mountaintop each year. It's equally unclear what...

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• Breaking Thurgood Marshall's promise - declining minority enrollment in higher education

  - 1998-02-05

  Out of 268 first-year students enrolled at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley, only on is African American. Out of 468 at the University of Texas School of Law, only four are. Embedded in these cold facts is a personal story of how, forty-seven years ago,...

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• Remarks at a fundraising luncheon in Dallas, Texas

  - 1995-10-23

  Thank you very much. Lloyd Bentsen already said this, but I want to reemphasize that in my opinion, when the history of our administration has been written, even those who disagreed with a lot of things I did will say that, unquestionably, Al Gore was the most important and influential...

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