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June 2000

Table of Contents

Features

From a boutique hotel in hip South Austin to a bed-and-breakfast across the Mexican border, from fly fishing on the Llano River to bathing in the Chinati Hot Springs, 33 getaways the guidebooks don’t tell you about, courtesy of our intrepid staff of weekend warriors.

“When a corporation does something that results in the death of people, what prison do you put them in?” asks the plantiffs lawyer Texas business loves to hate, and he’s just getting warmed up.

Three friends, seven years, untold pounds of pork chops and prime rib, and a single tradition that elevates the experience above mere food.

If it pleases the court, the question before you is whether the attorney general of Texas has served his constituents or, as his critics charge, only his own political interests. What is your verdict?

So says Don Baylor, the Austin native now managing baseball’s lowly Chicago Cubs. His players hear him loud and clear, but history has a way of repeating itself.

What do you do when you win a $295,000 MacArthur “genius” grant? If you’re biologist David Hillis, you keep teaching at the University of Texas as if nothing happened, and you keep chasing frogs.

Columns

Behind the Lines

The New York Times versus Texas: It’s only the beginning.

Sports

Whether coaching the Chicago Bulls to six NBA titles or leading the Lakers to their best record in years, Phil Jackson has had one constant: Wellington native Tex Winter at his side.

Business

As surgeon general—the nation’s top doctor— C. Everett Koop was much beloved and undeniably respected. So why is the Web site that bears his name in such disarray?

Education

UT regents want their next chancellor to be an academic? Whatever. At Texas Tech, a politician is the one in charge, and he's more than making the grade.

Music

How Lubbock’s Legendary Stardust Cowboy stays legendary after all these years.

Reporter

Face

Good neighbors, good fencers.

The Ex Files

Dancing with Annette O’Toole

Reporter

Life around the town of Crawford sure was slow until George W. Bush bought a ranch there.

Texas Classics

The Time It Never Rained.

Low Talk

Meet our governor . . . Rodney Ellis?

Previews+Reviews

The best new books from Texas.

Previews+Reviews

The best new music from Texas.

Miscellany

Texas Primer

What is the one movie that Dennis and Randy Quaid appeared in together?

Making sense of the Aggie Bonfire.

Recipes

Will you enjoy the wrapped sea bass at San Antonio's Biga on the Banks? That depends on how you filo.

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