Parents of the Year
2004-2005
Applications are currently available online
http://parentsweekend.tamu.edu. They are due
Friday Feb 20, 2004 by 5:00 pm in the SGA
cube at 127 Koldus Building.
Questions? Contact Libby Whitehead at 324-5377
Parents’ Weekend Committee
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A Tradition of Excellence.
Valentines Dinner
Reserve Your Romantic Dinner
At The Kyle House Now!
Friday, February 13, or Saturday, February 14, 2004
The Kyle House has a selection of great entrees to choose from:
Tenderloin of Beefor Pork, Gourmet Chicken Breast with
Orange Glaze or Swiss Cheese Sauce, Crab Stuffed Salmon Filet,
Shrimp Scampi or Red Snapper Pontchartrain
Complete four course dinners, not including wine,
range from $28 to $38 per person
Call, e-mail or fax Julie for list of
accompaniments & reservations
Entree selections must be made by 5p.m. the Monday bfrre the Valentine Dinner
Table Seating at 6:00p.nu and 8:00p.nu
800 South Avenue ♦ Bryan, Texas 77803 ♦ (979) 775-8375
♦ Fax: 775-8376
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Democrats derided Bush for
shortchanging social programs,
pursuing tax cuts largely help
ing the rich and producing an
unyielding stream of huge budg
et shortfalls.
‘The president clearly does
not understand the economic,
social and security challenges
that our nation faces today,” said
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a
leading presidential contender.
“Today the President
released a budget that deepens
the deficits that his policies have
helped to create,” said Rep.
John Spratt, D-S.C., of the
House Budget Committee.
If Bush’s deficit and spending
projections come true, the gov
ernment will borrow 22 percent
of what it spends this year and 15
percent next year. His plan sets
aside $178 billion next year just
for paying interest on its debt.
Bush provided few details on
how he would halve deficits, other
than broad references to economic
growth and spending restraint.
His budget assumes the one-
third of the budget Congress
writes every year — the rest is
automatically paid benefits like
Social Security — will grow by a
total of 3.7 percent over the next
five years. That figure is so low
lawmakers are unlikely to heed it.
Bush also proposed $1.1 tril
lion in tax cuts over the next
decade, mostly to renew expiring
reductions for individuals and
businesses but also reworked
plans to encourage saving.
Bolten, the budget chief, said
Bush wants to eliminate 65 pro
grams for a savings of $4.9 billion
and cut 63 others. Congress has
ignored such proposals before.
Though Bush proposed an
overall 3 percent education
increase — a figure Democrats
say is too skimpy — 38 programs
slated for extinction were in the
Education Department. They
included a $35 million arts in edu
cation program, school counsel
ing and Even Start for improving
poor children's reading skills.
Programs Bush would cut
include water projects, rural con
servation. aid to state and local law
enforcement agencies. iIk* Amtrak
passenger railroad, and federal
prisons, which would drop from
$4.76 billion to $4.71 billion.
The president’s budget is a
proposal that triggers work on
spending legislation by
Congress, which is controlled
by Republicans.
The year is likely to be frac
tious because of divisions
between conservative GOP law
makers who want even deeper
cuts in spending and deficits,
and moderates wary of slashing
too deeply, especially while
seeking re-election.
Conservative unease intensi
fied by the budget’s upward re-
estimate — by one-third — of the
10-year cost of the newly enacted
Medicare overhaul to $534 billion.
“This budget is a step in the
right direction and I am hopeful
that working with other mem
bers of Congress we can do even
more,” said conservative Rep.
Jeb Hensarling. R-Texas.
soldiers killed in Iraq
Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -
Three soldiers stationed at Fort
Hood were killed over the week
end when their vehicle struck a
homemade explosive device
near the northern Iraq city of
Kirkuk, the Defense Department
reported Monday.
The soldiers from the 4th
Infantry Division were identi
fied as Sgt. Eliu Miersandoval.
27, of San Clemente, Calif.; Cpl.
Juan Cabral Banuelos, 25, of
Emporia, Kan.; and Pfc. Holly
McGeogh, 19, of Taylor, Mich.
All three were light-truck
mechanics assigned to the
Company A, 4th Forward
Support Battalion, officials at
Fort Hood said. Their vehicle hit
the improvised mine while trav
eling as part of a convoy about
27 miles south of Kirkuk.
Dan Hassett, a Fort Hood
spokesman, said Monday that
another soldier from the post near
Killeen was killed Sunday in a
separate incident, but that person’s
identity has not been released.
About 20,000 troops from
Fort Hood are scheduled to
return home from Iraq this
spring, while some 20,000 other
soldiers from the post are
preparing to be deployed.
Counting the yet-unnamed
casualty, 54 soldiers from Fort
Hood have been killed in Iraq
since the war started nearly a
year ago, Hassett said.
Miersandoval, born in
Mexico, joined the Army in
1998 and spent nearly all of his
military career at Fort Hood.
Cabral’s cousin, Marisol
Gomez, said her cousin was a
native of Geres, Mexico. She
said her cousin spent most of his
childhood in Riverdale, Utah,
and moved to Emporia with his
family as a teenager.
She said her cousin was a
popular student in high school
who dreamed of enlisting in the
Army after graduation. He
became an Army mechanic and
was stationed in Fort Hood
before he was deployed to Iraq.
“When he was in high school
that was one of his goals to fin
ish high school and graduate and
go to the Army when he gradu
ated,” Gomez said. “He said he
liked it there (in the Army). It
was difficult hut he liked it. He
liked what he was doing.”
Gomez said he will be buried
in Utah, where most of his fam
ily lives.
She said the soldier's death is
extremely painful because in
just a few weeks he would have
been reunited with his wife and
two small children.
Cabral’s wife, Anita Cabral,
24, told the Standard-Examiner
of Ogden, Utah, that she met her
husband-to-be when she was a
young child. The pair married in
September 1998, a few months
after Cabral enlisted.
“He was proud of his boys,
proud of his family ... I’m going
to go back to Utah and raise my
boys like he wanted me to,”
Anita Cabral said. The boys 7
years and 18 months old.
Anita Cabral said her hus
band loved to tinker, especially
on his 1963 Chevrolet Impala
Super Sport. That love of cars
helped make him a light-truck
mechanic in the military.
McGeogh became a soldier
in 2002 and was assigned to Fort
Hood last March.
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Justices Felipe Reyna
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against each other for j
the l()th Court of Appeals.
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experience to fulfill the sei
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five years as a justice, wl*
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The Brazos Cfl
Republican Club will meet
next month.
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