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On the whole, the national press has a sneering stereotypical view of the state, which you'd think was overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek, but no one sneers with more relish than the Times . Maybe it dates back to the trouble Molly Ivins had as the paper's Denver bureau chief.
James K. Galbraith, a constant critic of the profession (and a frequent contributor to the American Prospect ), urges economists to emulate "vibrant humanities faculties" in which "departments develop viciously opinionated, inbred, sometimes bitter and tyrannical but definitely exciting intellectual climates."
Even if editors at the Times really did consider Texas to be, as you put it, overrun with oil-slicked bumpkins, tyrannical high-school football coaches, mechanical-bull-riding smoothies, and the odd computer geek--and let's be honest here, Evan, that's not an entirely inaccurate depiction--I'm still not sure many Texans would even notice.
Radek, the tyrannical leader of Kazakhstan.
Among the lowlights: An article contends that the much-touted new African leaders (Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Congo's Laurent Kabila) are as tyrannical as their predecessors.