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May 1990

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Features

A modest Catholic boys’ school in El Paso could teach public schools a lesson or two about how to provide a solid education on a limited budget and send 98 percent of their students off to college.

A Dublin bottler is the only one in Texas who’s still sweet on traditional Dr. Pepper.

The mysterious Texan who tried to take over Austrailia’s mighty Bond Corporation last January look good on paper-but paper was about all he had.

To those who live on Mexico’s side of the Rio Grande, posing for portraits is not an occasion for smiles.

Now that my son is behind the wheel, I can’t decide whether it’s better to ride shotgun or steer clear of him completely.

Columns

Literary terrorists.

Business

Laredo initially hated Monterrey’s plan for a new border crossing but had second thoughts when it realized that there was money to be made.

Books

Three new books deliver sordid stories of drugged-up cops, kinky murderers, and a real-life drug kingpin.

Food

Lone Star cuisine is all the rage in Paris—France, that is.

Reporter

Reporter

A $10 million sweepstakes winner wants to run Denton.

Reporter

A warning to those who barrel through the wide-open spaces at full throttle: Untold danger lurks in that tiny town you missed on the last blink.

Reporter

Padre’s spring breakers just want to have fun.

Miscellany

Talking up Texas’ present and past.

Just when one education lawsuit is over, along comes another; how Ross Perot became an issue in the lieutenant governor’s race; why Coke-Stevenson, that is-is hard to swallow.

Domain: A TEXAS MONTHLY Editorial Supplement

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