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Was Texas built on ethnic cleansing? Assertions in book by an Oklahoma history professor might rile proud Texans. By Mike Cox SPECIAL TO THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Sunday, November 20, 2005 Last summer, while I was visiting my bookseller friend Felton Cochran in his San Angelo bookstore, he picked up a copy of the fall University of Oklahoma Press catalog and with clear disdain showed me a blood red photograph of a Comanche chief wearing a U.S. Cavalry hat with a star on its crown. The "X" in the word "Texas" had been superimposed over the Indian's face in red ink. "Have...

During 2003 the seemingly constant journalistic scandals at the New York Times caused reporters and editors who were busy corrupting the news at less notorious outlets to be overlooked. In addition to the Jayson Blair scandal, there were the newspaper of record's l'affaires Rick Bragg, Lynette Holloway and Maureen Dowd; the resuscitation of the Sally Hemings Hoax; the matter of the non-existent terrorist attack in Iraq reported by "Pfc. Jose Belen"; the newspaper's postmortem castration of photographer Marvin Smith; its premature burial of dancer Katharine Sergava; and editorialist and Jefferson-hoaxer Brent Staples' baseless smear, claiming that Strom Thurmond had raped...

<p>Former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Reuben Anderson of Jackson and Gulf Coast banker George Schloegel will co-chair Gov.-elect Haley Barbour's transition team to help Barbour build an administration Barbour says he wants to be "inclusive."</p> <p>Former state Rep. Charlie Williams of Senatobia and former state Department of Economic and Community Development Director Jimmy Heidel of Vicksburg also will be among those assisting in the transition, Barbour said Tuesday.</p>

<p>Anderson, 47, at least the second black candidate to make a historic bid for statewide office this year, slipped by his opponent, state Sen. Rob Smith, in one of three statewide runoffs Tuesday.</p> <p>He joins Democrat Barbara Blackmon, also vying to become the first black statewide elected official since the late 19th century. Republican Roger Crowder, whose race was still undecided late Tuesday, could be a third.</p>