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As soon as word spread that an aircraft had crashed into a Northwest Austin office building, the first question to cross both mind and lip was: "Is this the work of terrorists?"President Barack Obama was briefed on the crash, and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo thought it important to reassure local and national audiences that the crash, though apparently intentional, was not an act of terror — or at least not terror-inspired and executed by Islamic fundamentalists.
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- Tough choices for GOP voters in judicial races
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We start the new year with a list of familiar concerns, and that familiarity
should breed contempt.