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Stop “bean” a heretic

This may be the first time you are hearing this, but I think it’s important to know that your life has been a lie. That thing you call “chili” is not. Unfortunately, the pervasive sin of putting beans in chili infects the minds of people outside of Texas and even some inside the confines of...

SAB to host annual Gingerbread Wars
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SAB to host annual Gingerbread Wars

  Thirty teams will put their gingerbread house decorating skills to the test on Friday night at the annual Student Activities Board sponsored Gingerbread Wars.  At 7 p.m. on Dec. 3, teams of two to three students will have 30 minutes to build a gingerbread house, plus three mystery ingredients to incorporate into their creation. ...

Book Review: Robert Elder’s ‘Calhoun: American Heretic’
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Book Review: Robert Elder’s ‘Calhoun: American Heretic’

While we were watching the political chaos of 2020 and early 2021 unfold, Baylor historian Robert Elder was quietly finishing his long and masterful biography of John C. Calhoun. In “Calhoun: American Heretic,” Elder makes one of America’s strangest and most controversial figures familiar without understating any of his flaws. From Calhoun’s youthful presidential dreams...