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Bill Crist ’73 says: I was a fish in Sqdn 4 the year we built the tallest Bonfire on record. I remember the bruises, the muscle pains, the cuts, the blisters, the pushups. It is all pale compared to the sacrifice our 12 brothers and sisters gave to our beloved school. Every Aggie Muster since that day I have said a "Here" for them. Their sacrifice is forever etched in our minds. Whether or not we ever see another official Bonfire does not matter; our traditions will survive. We are great. We are mighty. We are Texas Aggies. (November 5th, 2009 at 10:23am)

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Gregory Curtis

Gregory Curtis

Gregory Curtis was the editor of TEXAS MONTHLY from 1981 until 2000. You can find out more about his current activities at www.gregorycurtis.com.

Features

She named him Mark. I didn't know why, any more than I knew why my daughter was drawn to riding in the first place. But I did know that she loved him—and that letting him go was the hardest thing she'd ever done. (March 2004)

Read all about her. (September 1999)

Why the Warren Commission was right. (November 1998)

A matter of life and death. (September 1998)

Beat the crowds; do some Spade work. (November 1997)

Good chemistry. (September 1997)

Scripting success. (September 1996)

Head of the class. (September 1996)

It was simple, really. With Charlie’s Angels, television discovered sex. (April 1982)

One week with a thousand cheerleaders. (October 1977)

Witches are where you find them. But where is that? (May 1974)

Fires, murders, robberies, assaults, highway accidents: they happen every day in the city, and what happens every day is big news on San Antonio TV. (February 1974)

In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football. (December 1973)

From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered. (October 1973)

Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up. (September 1973)

Bright lights and movie madness in Big D. (June 1973)

Why movies play where they do, when they do, and if they do. (May 1973)

Is anybody in Dallas watching? (March 1973)

Columns | Miscellany

There should be no mystery about the latest artifact of “history.” (January 2008)

I’ll be seeing you. (July 2000)

The New York Times versus Texas: It’s only the beginning. (June 2000)

Reclaiming George W. Bush. (April 2000)

The last word (for now) on Davy Crockett. (March 2000)

My mane attraction. (February 2000)

’Dome, sweet ’Dome: Good-bye to the stadium of the century. (December 1999)

A charter school that makes the grade. (November 1999)

Down—and up—on the bayou. (September 1999)

How great is Walter Prescott Webb? I had no idea. (July 1999)

Y’all, the world’s a stage. (May 1999)

What the University of Houston can teach Texas. (April 1999)

A case for the parks. (March 1999)

Scenes from the new oil bust. (February 1999)

Houston and Dallas go for the gold. (January 1999)

A TAAS test test. (December 1998)

Urban Cowboy rides again. (November 1998)

The book on foreign policy. (October 1998)

This summer’s hot topic? Weather. (September 1998)

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Crime in Mexico hits home. (June 1998)

Now playing: Houston’s Fifth Ward. (May 1998)

How Texas—and Texas Monthly—has changed. (April 1998)

Why the state’s tobacco settlement has ignited a controversy. (March 1998)

Why our pictures are worth a thousand words. (February 1998)

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(November 1997)

Should Texas execute a woman? You could debate that question to death. (October 1997)

Is there such a thing as privacy on the Internet? (September 1997)

Boone Pickens no longer wears a tie. Herein lies a tale. (July 1997)

How a man named Eldrewey Stearns began the fight for civil rights in Houston. (June 1997)

Why Texas needs an income tax. (May 1997)

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Why the big fight between a small town and a small church wound up in the Supreme Court. (December 1996)

Why good schools have clean bathrooms and principals who don’t wear high heels. (November 1996)

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The art of throwing punches, the science of skipping rope, and other reasons why boxing is a hit with me. (May 1996)

A new book about Lee Harvey Oswald reveals that conspiracy theorists are still straining to repackage old news into something new. (April 1996)

The conventional wisdom is that the independents are good and the national chains are evil—but don’t judge a bookstore by its cover. (March 1996)

Two grim incidents involving guns, three dead teenagers: Reflections on self-defense. (February 1996)

Two poets, well versed in the ways of Houston, reflect on the city’s effect on lives and letters. (January 1996)

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(December 1991)

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Heroes in the shade. (July 1989)

The case against conspiracy. (January 1989)

The sixth floor. (April 1988)

If the Southland gave birth to the blues, Mack McCormick wants to know the time and place of the blessed event. (May 1977)

Doug Sahm's music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody. (April 1974)

Our reviewer, whose capacity for punishment is apparently boundless, reports on ten best-selling paperback books. (March 1974)

Try something different next time you head West. (February 1974)

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Turn off the T.V. and read a spell. These books are fun. (July 1973)

Cover up. (October 1980)

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