Tom Cole
Tom Cole
Thomas Jeffery "Tom" Coleis the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is a Deputy Majority Whip. The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committeefrom 2006 to 2008, he was, during his tenure, the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House. As of 2015, Cole – a member of the Chickasaw Nation – is one of only two registered Native Americans in Congress...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 April 1949
CountryUnited States of America
We're looking in the crystal ball. We're moving into an area where we don't know what will happen.
We're in an exceptionally challenging electoral environment. We start off on a battlefield today that is tilted in their direction, and that's when you have to use the advantages you have.
Advances in logistics and distribution center technology allow us to handle a larger volume of goods more effectively with fewer facilities that are more regional in nature.
I think the congressional agenda has been more realistic and frankly more limited than Bush's. The Bush presidency has a lot of big ideas, which is generally good thing, but there just is not a lot of legislative follow-through.
It is like everytime I got the WWF into a legal situation I won hands down, and if I can take anything away from this that makes me feel really good.
really went out of his way to establish that, I think, because he knows there's a legitimate concern and he doesn't want people who are innocent of any wrongdoing to be suspected of any wrongdoing.
If you look at some of the most successful people in history, at some point they all failed, but they didn't quit or give up.
He said, 'We're continuing our investigation, but as every day goes by it just seems less and less likely. ... This looked like an individual act,
"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months. And the Oscar nomination, the film's producer says Colombians are comparing it to having the national team in the World Cup.
The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Outsiders came into the jungle, enslaved the tribes to harvest the rubber and killed those that resisted.
Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.
Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In that journey, he has to discover, in solitude and silence, who he really is."
And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders following in each other's footsteps as the same person, a single soul traversing across several lives. They also see time as something that doesn't proceed inexorably into the future.