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How to Ride a Wave
August 1, 1996 | by Ethan Thompson | How To
How To Weather A Scandal
"I had to live my life as productively as I could, despite what people would say behind my back."
July 1, 2003 | by Henry Cisneros | How To
How To Write a Speech
"If you want the speaker to sound warm and welcoming, spend an hour with her, hear her voice, and capture it on paper."
July 1, 2003 | by Liz Carpenter | How To
How to Sell a Candidate
"The conventional wisdom is that you have to make him perfect. But today, humanity is more important than perfection."
July 1, 2003 | by Mark McKinnon | How To
How To Be a Good Loser
"If you start feeling sorry for yourself, if you point fingers and get angry at this person or that, what good does it do?"
July 1, 2003 | by Tony Sanchez | How To
How to Be a Political Spouse
"I felt free to express my opinions. But if I was going to make a speech and I was talking about policy, I'd choose my words carefully."
July 1, 2003 | by Rita Clements | How To
How to Sound Smart On TV
"The worst thing you can do is formulate paragraph-long answers in advance. Keep it simple, stupid."
July 1, 2003 | by Wayne Slater | How To
Shoot a Basketball
March 1, 1996 | by Evan Smith | How To
Confessions of a Seventh-Grade Texas History Teacher
Bobby Jackson has taught students in the Aransas County school district about the Plains Indians, the Battle of San Jacinto, and Spindletop since the state celebrated its sesquicentennial. How he does it bears no resemblance to the class I took when I was stuck in middle school.
September 1, 2012 | by John Spong | How to Raise a Texan
Fried Catfish
The best way to enjoy a mud cat.
September 1, 2013 | by Patricia Sharpe | How to Cook Like a Texan

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