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HOT JUMBO BAGEL 307 WEST 5T1-1 STREET AUSTIN, TX 512.477.1137 Riau Naga, Enjoy our organic, in house roasted coffee. Watch the kids play as you catch up with a friend. Listen to local musicians and relax with a beer or wine. Come see our new space. International Headquarters 3601 S. Congress off E. Alpine Penn Field under the water tower check our site for monthly calendar Huffington, continued from page 17 It obviously makes no difference to the president that 10 Nobel-Prize winning economists have condemned his tax cuts as “not the answer” to high unemployment, or that a new Congressional Budget Office study found that the “jobs and growth package” will actually have very little effect on longterm growth. Not interested. Not listening. The 1.4 million jobs the White House repeatedly says the tax cuts will create are more a matter of a fanatic’s faith than of dispassionate forecasting. The fact is there are now 2.1 million more unemployed Americans than when Bush took officethe vast majority of them having lost their jobs after the president’s initial $1.3 trillion tax cut was passed in 2001. Difficult evidence to ignoreunless “ignore the evidence” is your eleventh commandment. A popular definition of insanity is: doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Well, that seems to be the White House theory on the power of tax cuts to produce new jobs: It didn’t work before; let’s try it again. Welcome to the D.C. Matrix. Arianna Huffington is the author of Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America. Hitler, continued from page 27 ing both self-criticism and intellectual honesty, Junge realizes her own complicity in his crimes. If this young woman had understood what the Nazis were about, then she should have too. Because Junge is so composed as she gives her testimony, the viewer sometimes wonders about the extent of her remorse. Except for her anger at Hitler’s suicide, her calm really only breaks when the camera shows her watching herself. That is, at times she’s filmed watching herself on monitor. The effect is quite striking. The elderly but handsome woman giving her testimony is generally composed, even a bit subdued. But when Junge looks at herself on screen, and hears herself speaking those words, she covers her mouth in horror, as if she still can’t believe that she was witness to such events. The contrast between the two images is the most powerful visual moment in the filmthe one that convinces us that she’s truly haunted by her past. Junge died the night the film premiered in the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. The last words she speaks on film are, “I think I’ve finally learned to forgive myself.” David Theis is the author of Rio Ganges Mexico. He lives in Houston. Dialogue, continued from page 2 Great storynow if all the Dems in Congress did the same thing we could get back to the business of running the country properly and not just for the rich people. Keep up the good work and let’s hear more from Molly Ivins. Thank you. Mary E. Hellen Hudson, MA The problem with redistricting in Texas seems to be similar to the one we have in Colorado. I agree with the decision of the Texas Democrats not to attend legislative sessions. If I understand correctly, the Republican legislators both in Texas and California are showing an unbelievable amount of gall. In Colorado the subject of redistricting was not even introduced until very near the end of the session, and then the passage of the bill into law was rammed through with proper parliamentary procedures being dispensed with \(without a reading of the bill In spite of all efforts by the Democrats, the bill became law Something sensational like the Texas walkout needs to be done to counteract the overturning of an earlier duly deliberated redistricting process, certified by the court system only after the Legislature was deadlocked. There will be a court appeal in Colorado, but what a bunch of nonsense it is to even make it necessary. John F Gentry Pueblo, CO 616103 THE TEXAS OBSERVER 29