| 04/15/2001 High Profile: Jane Roberts Wood
Whatever you do, don't call Jane Roberts Wood "sweet." Call the Dallas novelist funny, call her feisty. Call her (as she calls herself) "the biggest wild-eyed liberal." But don't refer to her as "that sweet little silver-haired lady." If she hears you, she just might shock you with some tart talk. 04/08/2001 High Profile: Ruth Thomas
In a small room at a Girls Inc. center, young girls study math. In another room, adolescent girls hunch over their notebooks, their pencils gliding across paper, as they do homework. And in the main room, chairs scrape as 16 girls gather around a scuffed table. They're telling Ruth Thomas about the fund-raiser they attended the day before. 04/01/2001 High Profile: Dr. Ronald R. Blanck
There he was, a man in his 20s, tending to the sick and dying when artillery fire hit the hospital in An Khe, South Vietnam. At least 20 people were killed. Dr. Ronald R. Blanck was among a handful who survived. Years later, in the midst of a long and distinguished career as a high-ranking medical officer in the U.S. Army, Dr. Blanck, now 59, found himself in Spandau Prison in Berlin, tending to its only patient, a man with a grim and perplexing history. 03/25/2001 High Profile: Jo Boatright
Jo Boatright remembers the first time she had to play the inside of a piano. It took her 30 minutes to find the first note. Her decades of training and experience were all at the front of the piano, on the 88 black and white keys and the pedals underneath. 03/18/2001 High Profile: David Johnson
These days as the stock market stumbles and recovers more often than a drunk after an all-night binge, the bewildered and the uncertain turn for enlightenment – and perhaps a bit of entertainment – to David Johnson. His chirrupy voice, piping away several times a day on KRLD-AM (1080), public radio's Marketplace, TXCN and WFAA-TV (Channel 8), is reassuring even in the Dow's darkest hours. 03/11/2001 High Profile: The Rev. Frederick Haynes III
It's a winter Sunday morning and the Rev. Frederick Douglas Haynes III, master orator and senior pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church, is shadowboxing in his pulpit while telling the standing-room-only crowd that their arms are just too short to box with God. Suddenly, an inspiration hits, and Mr. Haynes explodes with one of his trademark rhymes, this time with respects to Muhammad Ali. 03/04/2001 High Profile: Clarence Gilyard
Since he was old enough to remember, Clarence Gilyard has been keenly aware of stereotypes. First, he was an "Air Force brat," then a jock, then an actor. And from the day he was born, he was an African-American male. 02/25/2001 High Profile: Clara Borja Hinojosa
There were the songs the grandmother sang to her finicky granddaughter to coax her to eat. For every sip of milk Clara took, her grandmother sang, "Que bueno es el pan con queso..." How good is the bread with cheese. 02/18/2001 High Profile: Rodney Crowell
Houston is on Rodney Crowell's mind. The respected singer-songwriter is reliving the memories of the poor, violent East Side neighborhood where he spent the first 19 years of his life. And through his music, Mr. Crowell is coming to grips with all of them. 02/11/2001 High Profile: Rob Tranchin
One spring morning Rob Tranchin awoke to a gorgeous commotion outside his bedroom window. He rolled out of bed, went out and looked up into the tree, where a mockingbird was pouring out its soul. Curiosity sated, he went back inside and forgot the encounter. 02/04/2001 High Profile: Jan Collmer
Jan Collmer believes life is best viewed from upside down at 200 mph. It is a symptom, he says, of a disease that drives him to spend weekends strapped inside a hot-rod stunt plane, looping, rolling and diving until the difference between up and down begins to blur. 01/28/2001 High Profile: Dylan Baker
There was a moment during Dylan Baker's days at Southern Methodist University when he changed his personal appearance – so much so that he startled his teacher, who suggests it may have been a turning point. 01/21/2001 High Profile: Norman Borlaug
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – He works out of a windowless office barely big enough for a desk and two chairs for visitors. Lining the walls are shelves filled with books on agriculture and philosophy, a few framed photographs taken in Africa and Mexico, and a large poster of the University of Minnesota's wrestling team schedule. |
