The controversial home of an embattled college president is a symbol of a Panhandle brawl full of conspiracies.
Emily Yoffe
Articles by Emily Yoffe
Apr 30, 1993 — By Emily Yoffe
After years of being alternately judged a great playwright and a great disappointment, Edward Albee has found his footing in Houston, where he teaches, socializes, and gets star treatment.
Feb 1, 1993 — By Emily Yoffe
When Leadership Texas began, there were no role models for women. Now its members are the role models.
Aug 31, 1989 — By Emily Yoffe
From Top Gun to Batman, Austin’s Warren Skaaren writes the movies everyone wants to see.
Jun 30, 1989 — By Emily Yoffe
Two nice guys with financial troubles thought they found the perfect solution to the bust. Well, it seemed like a good idea at that time.
Mar 1, 1989 — By Emily Yoffe
In George Bush’s Cabinet, Texans are crawling out of the woodwork. Read about their pasts, their pets, their secret passions.

Feb 1, 1989 — By Emily Yoffe
Every day each of us contributes five pounds to the growing mountain of garbage. Now the mountain looks like a volcano that’s threatening to erupt.
Jan 1, 1989 — By Emily Yoffe
The plane was heading to Houston at dawn. Surely the pilot was kidding when he said we would be landing in Nashville.
Jul 31, 1988 — By Emily Yoffe
Fire ants are on the relentless march across Texas, maiming, devouring, and stinging the living daylights out of everything in their path. We’ve tried to stop them, and it has only made them stronger.
Feb 1, 1988 — By Emily Yoffe
Everyone knows a single man has it made. His one wishes the fun was over.
Feb 1, 1988 — By Emily Yoffe
In 1981 these romances made the Dallas Morning News. We find out who’s loving happily every after.
Sep 30, 1987 — By Emily Yoffe
The bishop denied until the end that he got AIDS from homosexual contact. But the furor that resulted from his death has opened the door on his life as a gay man.

Jun 30, 1987 — By Paul Burka, Kaye Northcott, Emily Yoffe and Ellen Williams
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Apr 1, 1987 — By Emily Yoffe
As a medical student, Deborah Spiva was at the top of her class. As a researcher, she did experiments that came out perfectly. As a physician, she was known for treating patients with rare diseases. She was too good to be true.
Dec 1, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
At a time when Texas seems to have lost its gift for creating fortunes, there has emerged a group of entrepreneurs who are making money by catering to the needs of people who are going broke.
Dec 1, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
They have done it all: saved New York City and Massachusetts, written economic classics, created new companies, and turned old ones around. Now, at our request, they’re fixing Texas.
Dec 1, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
One school of though holds that when the economy is in a nosedive, that’s the time to go into business. At lease that’s what a farmer, an oilman, a developer, and a banker believe.
Dec 1, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
We gave a bunch of smart Texans $50,000. (Okay, we didn’t really, we just said we did.) The money comes with these strings attached: it has to be invested in Texas now, and the investments have to pay off by 1996.
Jul 31, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
Tapped by destiny, one man in Austin is forging an unlikely alliance between Texas oilmen and the friends of Israel.
May 31, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.
Mar 1, 1986 — By Emily Yoffe
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