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November 2002

  • Features

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      Illinois Jacquet Recommended Recordings

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      FAMED TEXAS TENOR ILLINOIS JACQUET’S very first session, with Lionel Hampton in May 1942, yielded “Flying Home” (heard on Hamp: The Legendary Decca Recordings[Decca]). It was his most famous record, but it was only the beginning of a long and impressive recording career. His 1946 work with Count Basie (“Mutton Leg,” from Basie’s 1946–1947[Classics] is …

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      Our Best High Schools

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      These are the best of the best—the top ten high schools in each of four economic categories, as ranked by the National Center for Educational Accountability. For the full list of more than one thousand public high schools in Texas, see page 170 (in the print copy). HIGHEST ECONOMIC GROUP College Station/A&M Consolidated Coppell/Coppell Fort …

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      Do The Math

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      DISTRICT/SCHOOL| STARS | % LOW INCOME | ALGEBRA PASSING RATE Pewitt/Pewitt | 5 | 50.4 | 95.0 Ysleta/Del Valle | 5 | 89.4 | 78.6 Hidalgo/Hidalgo | 5 | 96.9 | 62.1 San Antonio/Highlands | 5 | 89.0 | 57.2 San Antonio/Jefferson | 5 | 90.6 | 57.1 _________________________________________ Humble/Quest | 1 | 9.4 | …

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      Lights Out

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      Most of the lighthouses that once kept watch over the Texas Gulf Coast have vanished, victims of time and the modern world. Yet a few romantic relics remain.

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      Mr. Right

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      The line on James Leininger is fairly simple: He’s a doctrinaire conservative who spends millions supporting candidates and causes he likes—and opposing those he doesn’t. That makes him one of the most influential players in Texas politics in the post-Bush era.

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      How Good Is Your Kid’s High School?

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      Find out in our updated, expanded, and still exclusive ranking of nearly every public high school in Texas.

    • Politics

      Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

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      Once upon a time, the Central Texas town of Crawford was like Mayberry: Everyone knew everyone, no one talked politics, and the air was ripe with the aroma of hogs. Then the leader of the free world bought a little place west of the Middle Bosque River, and nothing was ever the same again.

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      Suburban Madness

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      Why did Clara Harris run over her husband with her Mercedes, then do it again and again? Call it the tragic final chapter in an otherwise amusing story—a demented version of Love, American Style starring four unhappy couples and one chatty private investigator.

  • Around the State

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      Books

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      READ ALL ABOUT IT November is an ideal month for books: The weather is cooler, a perfect excuse for staying in and escaping into the world of your favorite page-turner. But if bumming indoors isn’t your style, then mind your p‘s and q‘s and hit the road for these literary celebrations. Austin hosts the seventh …

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      Market Days

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      ATTENTION, SHOPPERS No doubt, holiday consumers who turn a sickly green upon hearing the word “mall” will search desperately this month for alternatives to the slew of chain stores. Some people will test their artistic capacities by creating their offerings; some will purchase presents online. Still others—thousands, we are told—will load up their baskets with …

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      Grand Opening

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      THE HARD CELL Beaumont has the Texas Energy Museum and Kingsville has the King Ranch Museum. Likewise, Huntsville promotes its industry—incarceration—with the Texas Prison Museum. Since 1989 museum visitors have surveyed exhibits dedicated to prison art, contraband, and capital punishment, gawking at the decommissioned electric chair Old Sparky along the way. Freshly released inmates have …

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      A Great Weekend in San Antonio

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      DRUM UP SOME FUN Whether you’re a folk art lover, a foodie, or just ready for a fall frolic, here’s an itinerary that should make your mouth water. Head to San Antonio November 1 and begin with First Friday, a monthly art walk that takes over the funky Southtown neighborhood’s streets and galleries with festive …

  • Columns

    • Behind the Lines

      Left Out

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      Billie Carr, R.I.P. Liberals too.

    • Travel

      Now, Voyager

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      I’m susceptible to seasickness and sun poisoning, and I hate being part of a herd. So, naturally, I took a cruise.

    • Sports

      Ice on the Block

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      If your goal is to own a pro hockey team, Tom Hicks has a deal for you: He’ll sell you the Dallas Stars for a mere $300 million—and throw in the prospect of an NHL-destroying lockout at no extra charge.

    • Music

      The State of Illinois

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      At eighty, most of us would be off our feet, not out on stage. But Illinois Jacquet, the great Texas tenor, keeps blowing his sax—and tooting his own horn.

    • Environment

      Water Hazard

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      The mayor of San Antonio says a 2,600-acre golf resort on top of the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone won’t ruin the city’s sole source of drinking water. Who wants to tee off on that one?

    • Texana

      Fave Combo

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      Let’s hear it for beans and cornbread, the tastiest of plate-mates, a classic Southern supper—and a meal any fool can cook.

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