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December 29, 1994
The Year of Living Anxiously
Are We Having Fun Yet? Or is it just the jangly buzz of advanced urban stress syndrome?
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January 8, 2009
Food & Foreign Policy
The World Affairs Council of Houston is best known for holding public events featuring foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and James Baker III. However two upcoming programs will extend the Council's reach into food-related subjects.
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April 6, 1995
The Wendy Card
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.
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February 15, 1996
The Insider
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.
News
October 24, 1996
The Insider
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.
News
July 31, 1997
The Insider
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.
News
August 7, 1997
Show 'Em Your Money!
Wendy Gramm's all-American success story is a centerpiece of her husband's fledgling presidential bid. But there's more to the story than what's being packaged and sold by the Phil Gramm campaign.
News
June 11, 1998
Lovett? Or Leave It?
Can public opinion preserve what a preservation ordinance can't? Or: Follow the bouncing wrecking ball
Calendar
April 20, 2006
Love, Actually
The CAMH honors a Houston assembler
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February 15, 2007
Command Performance
Bill Clinton wakes 'em up, for a while, at Rice
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November 2, 2006
Getting Schooled
A legendary debate teacher has a lesson plan to knock off Congressman John Culberson
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July 15, 2004
Good Fellows
A snake and a lady in a bikini take up residence at Space 125 Gallery
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January 1, 2004
Harvard and the Boogeyman
Will it be the Aeros' brawler or brainiac who gets to the NHL?
Calendar
June 13, 2002
Write On
Jim Maxfield's Tanglewood Pharmacy is home to the autographs of the rich and famous
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March 7, 2002
Some Very Reliant Directors
Board members on gilded strings
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January 3, 2002
Lay of the Land
Houston headed toward hard times: sports flops, floods and transit duds. If only city fathers could find a proven leader, an energy executive with a KEN-do attitude.
News
July 8, 1999
Trouble in Mind
Texas's mentally impaired used to go to treatment centers. Now they go to prison.
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June 17, 1999
The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker
Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.
Culture
May 13, 1999
Roots of Rice
Karl Rove has masterminded all of Bush's political victories. Now he faces his toughest challenge: convincing you that the presidential front-runner owns his own soul.
Blogs
August 4, 2009
Houston 101: Rice University's Twisted, Tangled Birth
Rice University's foundation story is amazingly checkered and includes spousal double-dealing, a secret will, a lengthy court battle, and finally, murder. A murder committed by the butler, no less, and one involving many of Houston's first families. Dominick Dunne would love this one... William ... More >>
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January 22, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison Continues To Nail Down The Inside-The-Beltway Vote So Important To The Texas GOP This Year
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison rolled out the big guns today as President George H.W. Bush endorsed her. Coming on the heels of the recent endorsement of former Secretary of State James Baker, Hutchison has ably demonstrated what it takes to win the GOP gubernatorial primary. If it were being run i ... More >>
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March 1, 2010
The Death Of The Kay-For-Governor Effort, In Five Telling Moments
The campaign of Governor Rick Perry has been gleefully sending out "pre-bituaries" -- in other words, stories analyzing what went wrong with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's gubernatorial race.Barring an upset of Truman-like proportions, the only question remaining in tomorrow's primary will be whe ... More >>
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October 22, 2010
The James Baker Monument: Five Things It Needs
James Baker: Not related to Velvet RevolverFinally, there will be a reason to visit downtown Houston: A statue honoring former Secretary of State James Baker will be unveiled Tuesday.Why Baker? As the monument's official website so modestly puts it, he's "A Magnificent American."Some people might ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Rappers Vs. Uncle Sam: N.W.A., Eminem, Kanye...
Mike Myers will probably go down in history as the most uncomfortable white guy next to a black guy in TV history, thanks to Kanye West's unscripted outburst during that infamous Hurricane Katrina telethon. It began with Myers reading his part of the script verbatim. Two-thirds into the PSA, ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Clyde Brewer, Western Swing Star, Passes Away At 80
Jesse Morris/ Western Swing Journal via emando.comVersatile musician Clyde Brewer, one of the founders of the popular Houston-area Western swing band River Road Boys, passed away Jan. 8 at his home near Magnolia. He was 80. Originally from Luling and later Beaumont, Brewer was a noted sessi ... More >>
Culture
March 31, 2011
Film Collage
Johan Grimonprez's stunning work screens at the Blaffer Museum.