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Thursday, Nov. 9 at 7:30 p.m. The estimated
attendance for the game is 20,000. The excitement
for the cross-town rivalry is expected to be high.
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Residence hall students are not required to
move their vehicles from the parking lots around
Kyle Field for the high school game, but
remember the Aggies will be playing at home on
Saturday!
For residence hall students who would like
to move vehicles from Kyle Field on Thursday,
parking for red permits will be authorized
through the weekend, including Friday, in the
following commuter lots adjacent to Reed
Arena — PA 97, PA 101, PA 102 (north, south,
east and west).
For additional information, call 862-PARK
or visit the website at www-ptts.tamu. edu.
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Where does the split come from?
Speculation ranges from a polariza
tion of values to the fundamental
disagreement, underscored by Gore
and Bush, about the role govern
ment should play.
What will it produce? Some, like
political scientist Alan Rosenthal of
Rutgers University, believe such
balance can increase consensus —
and encourage governmental pro
ductivity. To others, it is more evi
dence of the schism that threatens
American purpose.
“What we need to do is get back
to the idea that we’re all Americans
before we’re Republicans or Democ
rats,” said John Harmon McElroy,
author of American Beliefs: What
Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse
People United. “If this idea of self-
righteousness takes over our political
process, we’re in for something that
I don’t want to contemplate.”
Still others suggest that, in a time
of peace and prosperity, citizens
were not hungry and political ma
chines did not sow fervor.
“Neither party has a message that
overwhelmingly resonates with vot
ers right now,” said Tim Storey, an
elections analyst at the National
Conference of State Legislatures.
Beyond that, does an individual
opinion matter in a nation of hun
dreds of millions? Today, few
would argue that it does not.
buried. This would be amazing
for us.”
Where the ring has been for more
than a half a century is a mystery.
What is known comes from U.S.
Army Col. Thomas Fosnacht, a liai
son officer in Germany.
According to Fosnacht, several
years after the battle— it is unclear
exactly how long — a German man
found Leonard's ring while burying
remains of fallen soldiers near
Kommerscheidt.
The man kept the ring for more
than 50 years but recently died and
left it to his grandson, the unnamed
German military officer. The officer
contacted Fosnacht and said he
wishes to return the ring to its own
er. Leonard's name is engraved on
the inner part of the band.
Fosnacht contacted officials at
A&M, who are now working to
have the ring returned. Plans have
yet to be finalized, and communi
cation between A&M, the German
officer and Leonard's family is only
in the beginning stages.
Kershaw said she could not
speak for her entire family, but she
would like to see the: ring eventual
ly displayed at A&M.
“We have kept his memory
alive.” said Kershaw, among the
last of Leonard's relatives to see
him before he went overseas. “He is
not a family member who died and
we forgot about. His loss was dev
astating to us. For this tost
just overwhelming."
Although the ring’s hist
clear, more is known
Leonard’s courage in
According to A&M i;
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C in the 893rd Tank Destroy
tal ion at Kommerscheidt in I f
her 1944. When a German
threatened to overwhelm Ui
tions, Leonard moved throtijf
fire to reorganize infantry:
whose officers had been kilk
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was covered with branches
m the aid station.
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alive.
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during the battle, the Medalo:
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mother, Lily, in Dallas on I
1945. Leonard, who was list
missing in action, also recent
merous other honors.
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in a grave on the Kommerv
battlefield and moved toGrov.
Memorial Park in Dallas !
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1944, at age 33?'-^
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captain of I Company, named;
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Ryan Garcia, media communications specialist for
A&M University Relations. “He has testified before
Congress on several occasions and twice before the Na
tional Bipartisan Committee regarding the future of
Medicare.”
Through the Private Enterprise Research Center
(PERC) at Texas A&M, Saving and associate research
scientist Andrew J. Rettenmaier have developed a Social
Security calculator for the National Center for Policy
Analysis. Individuals enter their age, earnings, gender,
estimated retirement and occupation, and the calculator
determines what their monthly Social Security payments
at a specific age of retirement would be.
“I think the significance of the calculator is that it lets
people see how the system has actually worked compared
to what they may have been told or the ttnpressid
may have,” Saving said.
The calculator also shows the amount an indr
likely to pay in Social Security and the amount
is likely to receive in benefits.
“The security system is not going to get any bem
how we change it is what’s important,” Saving said
is why 1 am so excited to serve on a board that a:
to make this system work.”
Saving has been teaching at A&M since
this time, he has received much recognition. From
1991 he was head of the Department of Economic
1989 he was named University Distinguished Me
and in 1991 he was the Jeff Montgomery Professorofl
nomics. Since 1991, he has been the A&M direct!
PERC. He has worked on three books: The Found'
of Money and Banking, Medicare Reform-Jssuesi
Answers and Money and Wealth and Economic Bel
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