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May 1993

  • Features

    • Feature

      Wanted! By the FBI

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      What’s behind the Bureau’s bashing of its director, former San Antonio judge William Sessions? Go ask Alice.

    • Feature

      A Farewell to Arm

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      Even after his baseball career is over, Nolan Ryan will continue to be a role model for my kids—and me.

    • Feature

      Cream of the Crops

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      In these nine Texas towns, produce is more than product. It’s pride.

    • Feature

      Act II

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      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.

    • Feature

      See No Evil

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      Dallas police say Charles Albright is the coldest, most depraved killer of women in the city’s history. To me, he seems like a perfect gentleman. Maybe too perfect.

  • Columns

    • Behind the Lines

      Sunrise, Sunset

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      From 1993, a close look at the virtues of Texas’s sunset process.

    • Books

      Court Reporter

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      Renowned legal scholar and law professor Charles Alan Wright is deadly serious—about murder mysteries.

    • Travel

      Mayan Holiday

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      In Chiapas—Mexico’s wildes state—you can find cowboys, Indians, and ancient cities in the mist.

    • Sports

      Linksmanship

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      Far away from the crowded urban courses, there’s an older, saner game. Welcome to the pleasures of nine-hole golf and sand greens.

    • Business

      Buyer, Beware

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      The Texas real estate market is healthier than it has been in years, but watch out: The patient could suffer a relaps anytime.

  • Reporter

  • Web

    • Recipe

      Whiskey Sauce

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      4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/3 cup sugar 1 egg 1/2 tablespoon very hot water 1/4 cup heavy cream 1/4 cup rye whiskey Melt butter in double boiler over simmering water. In small bowl, whisk together sugar and egg, then stir into melted butter. Add hot water and simmer about 7 minutes, stirring until mixture coats …

    • Recipe

      Black-Bottom Pecan Pie

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      Piecrust 1 1/2 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water In mixing bowl, combine flour and salt. Mix in shortening with fingertips until mixture resembles coarse cornmeal. Sprinkle water over mixture one tablespoon at a time, stirring with fork. Form dough into ball and chill for 1 …

  • Miscellany