September 1999
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Features
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Sports • Tim Duncan
In-Spur-ational.
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Courage • Steven Gonzales
A soldier’s story
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Self-help • Phillip McGraw
Oprah’s guru.
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Advertising • Charlotte Beers
Selling it like it is.
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Community • Edward W. Guinn
The good doctor.
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Food • John Campbell
Supermarketer.
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Education • Barbara R. Foorman
Read all about her.
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Film • Henry Thomas
Comeback kid.
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Politics • Karen Hughes
Communicator in chief.
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Media • Marjorie Scardino
London calling.
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Law • James Byrd, Jr.
Crime and punishment.
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Culture • José E. Limón
Folk hero.
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High-tech • Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner
Net profiteers.
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Photography • Kate Breakey
Artist of the portrait.
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Books • Louis Sachar
Children’s writes.
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The Texas Twenty
They worked hard, overcame obstacles, bucked conventional wisdom, and touched our lives. Meet the most impressive, intriguing, and influential Texans of 1999.
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Music • The Dixie Chicks
Fly girls.
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Face • Lauren Bush
This year’s model.
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Business • Red McCombs
Driven to succeed.
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Television • Stone Cold Steve Austin
Lord of the ring.
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Health • Lance Armstrong
The ride of his life.
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Biz
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Hits and Mrs.
How Lady Bird Johnson became the first lady of Texas radio.
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Run From The Border
After years of neglect, what did the Legislature do this session for the good people of South Texas? ¡No mucho!
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If the Washington Redskins Are Worth $800 Million
What are the Dallas Stars and the San Antonio Spurs worth—not to mention less successful Texas teams.
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Cat & Mouse With Tom & Jerry
How much do Tom Hicks and Jerry Jones pay themselves for the privilege of owning the Dallas Stars, the Texas Rangers, and the Dallas Cowboys? That and more in a revealing joint interview.
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The Money of Color
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, a handful of rich Texans are exhibiting their mastery of the art of out-of-state philanthropy.
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B School Confidential
No surprise: The best place in the state to get an MBA is UT-Austin. But there are plenty of great alternatives.
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How I Made It
Lunch with Boone Pickens
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Exxon’s Generosity
• EXXON, IRVING, $4.45 MILLION More than $3.4 million in unrestricted gifts to 69 Texas colleges and universities, including Abilene Christian University, Rice University, in Houston, Trinity University, in San Antonio, and the University of Texas at Austin. The gifts were made under the Exxon Education Foundation’s matching gift program, which provides a three-to-one match …
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Hi, Tech
Tech beats oil on Y’all Street.
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Whatever happened to Walter Mischer
Walter Mischer’s latest developments.
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Biz Quiz
Can you match the Texas donor with the out-of-state recipient?
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Michael Dell
A Crystal Boot for Michael Dell.
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Waste City
Hold your nose and open your wallet: Why the business of garbage is good for Houston.
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Columns
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Mex Appeal
Ricky Martin? Jennifer Lopez? The real Spanish-language stars of the moment are the Monterrey punk, funk, jazz, and hip-hop duo Plastilina Mosh.
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Schmooze Paper
What do gossipeuse Liz Smith, politico Paul Begala, and Hollywood hotshot Robert Rodriguez have in common? They all worked—and networked—at the hundred-year-old Daily Texan.
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Java Nice Day
After years of not much brewing, Houston’s Duncan Coffee Company is piping hot all over again.
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In, Not On, the Bayou
Down—and up—on the bayou.
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Edifice Complex
Once upon a time, you went to a museum to see what was inside. Now you go to see the museum itself—and nowhere is this trend more in evidence than in Texas.
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Reporter
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Southern Discomfort
Don Graham remembers Willie Morris.
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Shore Thing
Attorney General John Cornyn sure knows how to stir up controversy. He has attacked the fees of the outside lawyers hired by the state in its successful lawsuit against tobacco companies, impugned the integrity of his predecessor, Dan Morales, and now has created a huge exception to the state’s open beaches laws by overturning the …
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Evitable?
How George W. could be evitable.
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CD and Book Reviews
MUSIC RARE PEARL: The complete Joplin. Janis Joplin Box of Pearls: The Janis Joplin Collection Columbia/Legacy RARELY HAS A POP ARTIST’S legacy rested on such a small and erratic output. But it seems strangely appropriate to Janis Joplin, who practically disappeared from rock radio soon after her 1970 death and the 1971 success of Pearl, …
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Drew Brees
“Everything I do out in the yard—throwing the baseball with my brother or the football with my dad—always turns into an accuracy contest,” says Drew Brees. And practice, in the case of this twenty-year-old quarterback, has made near-perfect. As the starter at Austin’s Westlake High School during his junior and senior years, Brees never lost …
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William J. Bennett
William Bennett journeys to Junction.
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Capital Campaign
Why the Bush campaign is good for the Texas economy.
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Web
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Jailhouse Chili
3 or 4 pounds beef (such as shank, round steak, flank steak, or lean chuck) 1 or 2 beers for marinade 1⁄4 cup canola or other vegetable oil 1 or 2 onions, finely chopped 5 garlic cloves, minced, or 1 tablespoon garlic powder 2 to 4 seeded jalapeños (more if preferred) 2 tablespoons cumin seeds, …
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Miscellany
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Plains Speaking
The best and worst of our best and worst legislators.
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Eric Dickerson
Why was Eric Dickerson nicknamed Mr. Benny?
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The Spong Remains the Same
Sure, Steve Austin boasts an imposing nickname: Stone Cold. But what the World Wrestling Federation superstar doesn’t know is that Texas Monthly assistant editor John Spong, who profiled him for this year’s Texas Twenty, has a pretty impressive appellation of his own. During his days at Austin’s Westlake High School, Spong was known as the …
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Around the State
Lubbock’s Music Crossroads of Texas guarantees that our memories of Buddy Holly will not fade away. Plus: A saintly exhibit in Abilene; the Dallas Theater Center turns forty with a season worth a standing ovation; Bedford sings the blues; and revolutionary art in Houston. THE MAIN EVENT Oh, Boy! Because of some not-so-buddy-buddy disagreements between …
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State Fare
Jailhouse Chili is a gastronomic pleasure for the Kinkster—and the rest of us.
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