Texans of another sort Latta, Sofer, and Adger will likely be back in New York on April 7 for the Wood, when Street Life is expected to take on 2-year-old champion Hansen.

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According to the Dallas Morning News, on September 8th, a former speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Ben Barnes, was about to testify in a lawsuit that Sidney Adger, a close friend of Mr Bush's father and a prominent Houston oil-man, approached Mr Barnes in 1968, seeking help to get the younger Mr Bush a spot in the National Guard.

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