Targeting Iran

These interviews catalog lost opportunities that could have brought Iran closer to America peacefully and headed off the rise of the reactionaries

"...To many Americans, Iran's history began with the 1979 hostage crisis. For Iranians, the pivotal date is 1953. That..."

July 6, 2007 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Town Lake Folk Festival

A song about waterfront development tickles SaveTownLake.org's fancy.

"...numbers, they bargain with threats With Hike and Bike hostage, they’re upping their bets F we give in the..."

July 3, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

Wrong on Right-of-Way?

Wonder what city legal staff has to say about the Perez sisters' alley rights?

"...allow a single property owner to hold the city hostage. (According to Austin's loan program director, the Las Manitas..."

June 18, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

TV Eye

The End of the Cardigan-Clad Wise Man as We Know Him

"...McCrane), lied about it, then later held his grandson hostage. Last week, he threatened to kill his grandson's mother,..."

May 18, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Those Crazy Brits

If the U.S.' biggest ally in Iraq is pulling out, why are they sending one of their princes there?

"...region tries to take his head or hold him hostage. Elements of the elite SAS may have to become..."

Feb. 23, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Breaking: Libertarians Are Cheap-Asses

"...and firefighter unions. The city budget is being held hostage by the very people who are supposed to protect..."

Oct. 27, 2006 News Post by Wells Dunbar

The Lewis File

Park Police personnel record casts a harsh light on small law enforcement agencies

"...the aegis of other city departments, they are also hostage to bureaucratic whims and vagaries, and subject to ever-changing..."

Aug. 18, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...we know these Americans are not just being held hostage by foreign countries? To make a long story short,..."

May 26, 2006 Column

Stop Government's Warrantless Spy Program

"...we know these Americans are not just being held hostage by foreign countries? To make a long story short,..."

May 19, 2006 Postmarks

Urinetown: The Musical

'Urinetown: The Musical' may wallow in a sordid premise and have an awful title, but Zach's production is always making you happy, if not downright giddy

"...Cladwell, daughter of UGC magnate Caldwell B. Cladwell and hostage of the "free pee" resistance. Her love of martyred..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek is an accomplished Aussie version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; it's also a viscerally told slasher film that manages to do an awful lot with very little.

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Christian Peacemakers

Texan activists worry about their abducted colleagues in Iraq

"...our lives in the event we are kidnapped, held hostage, or caught in the middle of a violent conflict..."

Dec. 16, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

The English Teacher

This follow-up to the critically acclaimed 'The Pleasing Hour' is a keen and forthright study of the inner workings of a family circle, which means it's excruciating to read – a strange compliment to bestow, but an apt one

"...is 1979, so the television is showing the Iranian hostage ordeal, and Peter's older stepbrother is a budding Taoist..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Books Review by Marrit Ingman

Point Austin: A Lege Too Far

Sine Die or school bells, perhaps they toll for thee

"...and Grover Norquist, is content to hold the schools hostage to property tax cuts, on the reasonable gamble that..."

Aug. 26, 2005 News Column by Michael King

War Made Easy

New echoes of Vietnam: 'Withdrawal would cripple U.S. credibility'

"...Press reporter who'd endured a six-year ordeal as a hostage in Lebanon until 1991, wrote an op-ed piece in..."

July 15, 2005 News Feature by Norman Solomon

Naked City

How Texas environmental policy fared in the Legislature

"...fix, SB 743, stalled over telecommunication policy disputes, "held hostage in battle," says Smith. An increase to the state's..."

June 17, 2005 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

Lege Wrap-Up

Miscellany

"...on the House Elections Committee, where it had remained hostage for most of the session. A few legislators made..."

June 3, 2005 News Feature

Public Ed Bill Escapes the House – Barely

Dems – and a few Republicans – try to hold back the privatization wave

"...threat to other social programs that will be held hostage against the education bill and meet the axe when..."

March 18, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

True Hollywood Stories

Texans who took a chance and headed west tell all

"...Daddy, Vandermeulen was hired as the apprentice editor on Hostage, the newest Bruce Willis vehicle, due out in 2005...."

Feb. 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Eli Kooris

OH! Mikey: Volumes 1-6

Leave it to the Japanese, arbiters of the bizarre, to find a way to make mannequins even scarier – by making them domestic

"...becomes possessed, is sexually harassed by a tutor, held hostage, becomes a vampire, witnesses his parents in bed, and..."

Jan. 28, 2005 Screens Review

Sinclair's Broadcasting Plans Are Odious

"...They shouldn't be allowed to hold that many people hostage to their partisan message. I shudder to think of..."

Oct. 12, 2004 Postmarks

News 8 at 5

Can Austin's little news station that could survive the grim reapers at Time Warner?

"...In recent years, U.S. airports have generally been held hostage to CNN, but at ABIA, travelers gather around monitors..."

Sept. 3, 2004 News Feature by Kevin Brass

The Least That Money Can Buy

Prison health care is caught between growing demand and shrinking resources

"...advantage. Writ-writers are often able to hold the state hostage to the law. There are, at any given time,..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Babies Behind Bars

In the mirror world of TDCJ, life goes on

"...seven or more inmates) and 329 lockdowns, with one hostage situation;..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Pardoned by Satan

If Texas can't kill the insane, where will the madness end?

"...freely exercising its power to invade, make war, hold hostage, starve, torture, or simply slaughter thousands of people under..."

May 28, 2004 News Column by Michael King

It's a Dirty Job ...

New arts tsar Vincent Kitch rolls up his sleeves to give Austin arts funding a clean start

"...associate more readily with a diplomat or even a hostage negotiator, but that doesn't make it any less appropriate..."

April 16, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

'It's Time to Give Them Another Jolt'

Ralph Nader stops to chat in Austin

"...RN: We're all hostages to an electoral college, winner-take-all system that forces people..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Austin @ Large: Reading the Riot Act

I want a new central library, and I want it now

"...to start a countdown in this space: "APL Held Hostage."..."

Feb. 27, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Silliest Things Imaginable

"...Reagan had set up secret deals with the Iranian hostage takers to get the hostages released on Inauguration Day...."

Feb. 25, 2004 Postmarks

It's a Conspiracy!

The landowner alleges vile collusion between City Hall and Stratus Properties -- but not actual citizens.

"...city, claiming that Mayor Will Wynn threatened to hold hostage two other pending Wal-Mart zoning cases -- for Supercenters..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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