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Robert Bryce

Columns | Miscellany

Merchant of Death

By pooh-poohing sentimentality and focusing on profits, Houston funeral home mogul Robert Waltrip is making a killing. June 1996

Reporter

War Rooms

A massive buildup for Texas Tech University’s Vietnam archive. June 1997

Fishy

The Barton Springs salamander goes to court. August 1996

Trash Talk

Why the citizens of Alvin are down in the dumps over garbage. June 1996

Cattle Call

The Federal Express of the cattle business. May 1996

Bombers Away

The B-1 bomber costs too much and does too little—so who wants to keep it alive? The people of Abilene, whose economy could take a direct hit if the Pentagon pulls the trigger. May 1996

War, Inc.

Brown and Root goes to Bosnia for the Pentagon—and cleans up. April 1996

All’s Well?

Candelaria’s only well supplied free water to all until the EPA weighed in. January 1992