The ceremony was to honor the four-score living Texans who had participated in the Revolution. They were all quite old, of course. It had been 75 years since 1992, when Texas had become a breakaway republic and, like Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, and the Ukraine in Soviet Russia, sought independence from a
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June 30, 1991
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April 30, 1991
My eyes are on the road ahead, but my ears are in a book.
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March 1, 1991
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December 1, 1990
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November 1, 1990
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September 30, 1990
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August 31, 1990
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July 31, 1990
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June 30, 1990
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May 31, 1990
The big buyout.
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April 30, 1990
Literary terrorists.
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April 1, 1990
The guilty set free.
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March 1, 1990
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February 1, 1990
A customs seizure raises a perplexing question: Who owns our past-Texas or Mexico?
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December 1, 1989
Backward and forward.
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November 1, 1989
From Sin Street to Fun Street
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September 30, 1989
Waiting for anointment.
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August 31, 1989
The Baptist guerrilla.
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July 31, 1989
Silver or Mickey Mouse?
Heroes in the shade.
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May 31, 1989
Not so hard-core.
Johnny Chan became a champion through nerve and dedication—and every now and then a few good hands.
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April 1, 1989
As Texans’ pride of place rose with the price of oil, collectors scrambled for the few documents of the Texas Revolution. Suddenly there seemed to be plenty to go around. But no one thought to ask why.
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March 1, 1989
Beyond Cisneros.
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February 1, 1989
Three years and $400,000 later.
The case against conspiracy.
SMU’s fall socer season had cheerleaders; it had a band; it had pom-pom girls. What it didn’t have was excitement.
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December 1, 1988
Texas With Tumors?
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November 1, 1988
Duked and Bushed.
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September 30, 1988
To Preach or Teach?
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August 31, 1988
Messin’ with Texas.
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July 31, 1988
Fun voting no.
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June 30, 1988
Prom night.
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May 31, 1988
A separate peace.
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April 30, 1988
Travis or Tejano?
Conover Hunt and the Sixth Floor Museum.
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March 1, 1988
White cop, black man.
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February 1, 1988
In 1973, from an office we shared with a colony of bats, we started a magazine about Texas.
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January 1, 1988
The big squeeze.
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December 1, 1987
The World War I theory of law.
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November 1, 1987
Takeovers and green bananas.