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ally renouncing the throne.
In 1948, the Cole Porter musical “Kiss
Me, Kate” opened on Broadway.
In 1978, Ohio State University fired
Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day
after Hayes punched Clemson University
player Charlie Bauman during the Gator
Bowl after Bauman intercepted an Ohio
State pass.
Ten years ago: U.S. Army helicopter pilot
Bobby Hall walked to freedom 13 days after
he was captured by North Korea in a shoot-
down that claimed the life of co-pilot David
Hilemon. A gunman walked into a pair of
suburban Boston abortion clinics and
opened fire, killing two employees and
wounding five other people (John C. Salvi
III was later convicted of murder; he com-
mitted suicide in prison).
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Orange to be placed in Trinity Bay for offshore
drilling purposes. A drilling test was scheduled
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Steve &
Cokie
Roberts
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agree that women have always
been much better at nurturing
relationships and expressing
affection. It’s the guys who need
help.
So for you fellows out there,
here’s a good New Year’s resolu-
tion: Read “Season of Life.”
Listen to Joe Ehrmann. Think
about what it means to be a
man. And remember what the
Gilman student body chants
from the stands as their football
team takes the field: “Love!
Love! Love!”
anyway?
Rep. Craig Eiland, D-
Galveston
P.O. Box 2910
Capitol Extension E2.906
Austin, Texas 78768-2910
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Today’s editorial was written by Meredith Darnell, [ nalists - in covering politics as
news editor of The Baytown Sun, on behalf of the
newspaper’s editorial board.
Angeles and Pasadena, was officially
opened.
In 1944, King George II of Greece pro-
claimed a regency to rule his country, virtu- to be conducted for Standard Oil of Texas.
In 1950, a 13-year employee of the Baytown
post office faced charges fo “rifling the mails,”
according to the postmaster N.B. Ballard. The
employee was arrested by postal inspectors and
was arraigned before the U.S. commissioner
after letters that contained money were reported
missing.
In 1951, judges at the election of supervisors
for the Harris County Fresh Water Supply
District No. 8 had to comply with a new set of
election laws in the first election in the state
which will be subject to the new Texas laws
approved by the state Legislature.
In 2003, the executive director for the
Baytown YMCA, Jim Haugen, said his good-
byes upon leaving for the director’s position at
the Conroe YMCA. Haugen was in Baytown for
three years working for the Baytown branch.
Steve and Cokie Roberts can
be contacted by e-mail at
svroberts@aol.com.
In a tragic incident just last month, a North Texas
woman was charged with capital murder in the death
of her 10-month-old daughter. Supposedly suffering
from postpartum depression, she severed the baby’s
arms and then called 911.
Closer to home and with less tragic outcomes.
Bridgehaven Children’s Advocacy Center in Mont
Belvieu has seen 94 cases of child abuse or neglect
since February.
Children must become a priority in Texas.
We urge the state Legislature to make immediate
changes in three areas.
First, they must ensure adequate funding for state
programs such as children’s health insurance, Child
Protective Services and the Crime Victim’s
Compensation Fund.
Overwhelmed CPS investigators are responsible
for an average of 61 cases, nearly four times above
the Child Welfare League of America’s recommen-
dation of 12-15 cases per caseworker.
Second, lawmakers must consider sentencing
reforms. For example, the cunent plea of “not guilty
by reason of insanity” should be changed to “guilty
but insane” to more accurately reflect the crime.
Third, financing should continue and in some
cases, increase, for non-profit agencies effectively
providing crime victim services, such as the
Bridgehaven Children’s Center.
Chris Dickinson, the organization’s executive
director, plans to entreat the Legislature to restore
the funding and the constitutionally dedicated status
of the Crime Victim’s Compensation Fund.
Texas must not leave its helpless children behind.
Residents should write their legislators and encour-
age them to make the resources available for our
most valuable resource.
Today is Thursday, Dec. 30, the 365th day
of 2004. There is one day left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History;
On Dec. 30, 1903, about 600 people died
when fire broke out at the recently opened
Iroquois Theater in Chicago.
On this date:
In 1852, future U.S. President Rutherford
B. Hayes married Lucy Ware Webb in
Cincinnati.
In 1853, the United States bought some
45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in
a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
In 1911, Sun Yat-sen was elected the first
president of-the Republic of China.
In 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the
establishment of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics.
In 1936, the United Auto Workers union
staged its first “sit-down” strike, at the
Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Mich.
In 1940, California’s first freeway, the
Arroyo Seco Parkway connecting Los
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back in unison. “What is your
job?” Joe shot back. “To love
each other,” the boys responded.
That mantra reflects Joe’s
basic philosophy. Boys in this
country, he says, are taught a
“false masculinity” based on
achieving three “lies”: athletic
ability, sexual conquest and eco-
nomic success. Those ill-con-
ceived ideals, he told Steve on
NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show,”
have created“the greatest crisis
in this country” because they
cripple men emotionally: “We
compare and we compete, but
we never really connect.”
Ehrmann suggests a different
model, one he calls “a man built take their lessons into the world,
for others.” It’s based on two To be sure, Joe’s message
for you? In the radio interview,
Joe expressed the goal this way:
“Making the world a better
place, a little more fair, a little
more just.”
In Jeff Marx’s view, the Age
of Kobe and its “endless stream
of negative stories” has actually
increased the audience for
Ehrmann’s message: “There’s
' such a hunger for this stuff out
there.”
The messenger matters, too.
Ehrmann starred in the NFL and
once “lived according to the
masculine code,” so he knows
what he’s talking about. “If 1
were a ballet guy,” he jokes, “I
don’t think they’d be listening.”
In addition, the Gilman
Greyhounds are a very good
football team, undefeated in
three of the last six seasons and
rising to number 14 a few years
ago in USA Today’s national
rankings. Joe is proud of that
record, but he knows his “real
victories” will come years from
now, when his Gilman players
In 2000, a recount of the
vote in Florida following the
narrow margin of victory was
certainly understandable. Even
though I supported the candi-
date that ultimately won, I cer-
tainly didn’t question a recount
being done with such a razor
thin margin.
Recounting the votes in
Ohio, however, where the mar-
gin of victory was well over
100,000 votes is the most
insane thing I have ever heard.
It is downright asinine.
If the Kerry campaign
admits that the recount will not
change the outcome then why
are they so insistent upon
doing it and why did they join
the other two candidates that
had absolutely no chance in
winning in pushing for it?
If they want to recount a
state that Bush. won by more
than 100,000 votes, then they
should recount states like
Wisconsin, Michigan, and
Minnesota that went for Kerry
with much slimmer margins.
But if we recount the Kerry
marginal wins, then that would
then cause the states the actual-
ly marginally went for Bush
like Iowa and New Mexico to
be recounted also.
Why don’t we just recount
the whole country? I am sure
there were erroneous mistakes
in Texas or California. Even if
the whole country was recount-
ed, the results would remain
unchanged and George W.
Bush would be re-elected.
Kerry, a man in his conces-
sion speech that called for
country unity, has done noth-
ing more than make his words
empty rhetoric. The election is
over, and George W. Bush will
be inaugurated in less than a
month. The losing candidate^
as well as Jessie Jackson, all
need to realize it was the will
of the people that decided the
election. That is something you
can count (or recount) on.
James Kingsmill
Baytown
Basketball superstar Kobe
Bryant has sex with a woman he
met just minutes before.
Baseball sluggers and champion
sprinters admit to taking steroids
to boost their performance. A
hockey player pleads guilty to
assaulting a rival and breaking
his neck. An NBA fan tosses a
soda at a player and the NBA
players rush into the stands to
fight with fans.
These headlines dominated
sports coverage in 2004, and
they are all legitimate stories.
i But it’s also true that we jour-
: well as athletics - tend to focus
on the bad guys, not the good
guys. For every strong safety or
city commissioner who breaks
the rules, there are countless
others who live honorable lives,
quietly upholding moral stan-
dards and conveying them to
others.
So as the new year begins, we
want to tell you about one of the
good guys. His name is Joe
Ehrmann, and he spent a dozen
years as an all-pro football line-
man. '
of his career, the death of his
younger brother from cancer
sent Ehrmann on a “long spiri-
tual journey.”
Today he is a minister in
Baltimore and an assistant foot-
ball coach at Gilman, a privi-
leged private school. More
important, he is a man with a
message about what masculinity
does and should mean, and it is
a bit surprising in a time when
chain-wearing, chest-thumping,
trash-talking, rim-hanging
celebrities dominate sports cul-
ture.
In his book “Season of Life”
(Simon & Schuster, 2004), jour-
nalist Jeffrey Marx describes
this scene in the Gilman locker
room before a game as Joe
addresses his players: “What is
I ourjob as coaches?” he asked.
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folks don’t value the things
they’ve acquired, but the lives
they’ve touched.
In “Season of Life,” Ehrmann
puts it this way: “It’s gonna
come down to this: What kind
of father were you? What kind
of husband were you? What
kind of coach or teammate were
you? What kind of son were
you? What kind of brother were
you? What kind of friend were
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cess is just as straightforward as
the first: Find a cause bigger
than yourself. Every Gilman
player is taught to ask one ques-
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