Texas has been hit with an unrelenting heat wave. Nowhere is it more miserable than in low-income areas that have less access to shade and air-conditioning.
As head of the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, he enhanced its holdings by acquiring the papers of a host of literary lions, and of Woodward and Bernstein to boot.
Stanford, a No. 1 seed, took one of its three losses this season in November against Texas, but it bested the Longhorns on Sunday to reach the national semifinals.