Email Author Miriam Rozen

2000 Stories by Miriam Rozen

• Code of Conduct

  published November 30, 2000

  Dave Thomas' star potential is not obvious at first glance. At 43, the British-born computer programmer smiles easily, keeps his hands... More >>

• You Scratch My Back

  published November 9, 2000

  Standing behind a discreet Japanese screen partitioning a small space in one of Texas Instruments' vast hallways, massage therapist Lynn Street... More >>

• All Quiet on the Eastern Front

  published October 26, 2000

  Some 85 years have passed since untold numbers of Armenians died in Eastern Turkey at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, but the historical fact of... More >>

• Out of Their League

  published October 5, 2000

  With only a cursory glance at the two teams sparring on the parched field, you could predict the outcome of my 9-year-old daughter's first soccer... More >>

• Seeker of the Lost Ark

  published September 28, 2000

  Vendyl Jones certainly looks like an archaeologist, or at least like an aging, Hollywood back-lot version of one, as the tall Texan stomps... More >>

• Busy Signal

  published September 14, 2000

  It's Saturday afternoon in Plano, and for once, the weather is nice. So nice that a young man leans against the outside wall of the Sprint PCS... More >>

• Sisterly Love

  published August 24, 2000

  Three years ago, Cathy Bonner stored her dream in a Tupperware container as she lugged it to prospective benefactors; next month, the 50-year-old... More >>

• Bad language

  published July 27, 2000

  In the Oak Cliff neighborhood where Juan Ontiveros operates his furniture shop, signs on the barred store windows advertise "recámaras" and... More >>

• Killing machine

  published June 29, 2000

  Clouds hover, but rain has not yet begun to fall on a Wednesday two weeks ago. It is 6:18 p.m., and Larry Fitzgerald has just finished the job... More >>

• Old-time religion

  published June 15, 2000

  Inside Rabbi Asher Goldschmidt's North Dallas home, a visitor can learn about Judaism in at least four different languages--English, Russian,... More >>

• Slacking in style

  published June 8, 2000

  At the time, Tracy Feith probably wouldn't have admitted to many people what he was doing more than a decade ago. Sneaking into a Dallas garment ... More >>

• Disconnected

  published June 1, 2000

  When you call 911 for help, you might expect a delay, but would you anticipate being ignored entirely? The Dallas police internal affairs division... More >>

• Bolton's blues

  published May 11, 2000

  Randy and Sandy Magg's retirement party was not supposed to be controversial. The husband and wife, both police officers, had logged a combined 50... More >>

• Beggars' banquet

  published April 6, 2000

  On a recent Friday evening, the third-floor foyer and ballroom of the Galleria Westin Hotel was crawling with well-fed Dallas matrons. Clad in... More >>

• Clearing the air

  published April 6, 2000

  When Sam Wyly began kicking around the idea of environmental advocacy ads in late February, the Dallas billionaire called his son. A 20-year-old... More >>

• Little people

  published March 23, 2000

  Eddie Deen wants to correct Gov. George W. Bush's calculations or, short of that, squeeze more money out of him. "Looks like I might need to send... More >>

• Critic's circle

  published March 16, 2000

  It's Oscar time. Everyone wants to be a critic. On Thursday evenings at the Starbucks on Northwest Highway near Preston Road, for the price of... More >>

• Black, white, and blue

  published February 17, 2000

  For Roosevelt Holiday, the "bat cave" reference was just a night-shift cop's feeble attempt at humor. A 43-year-old Dallas police officer, Holiday... More >>

• Bad planning

  published February 17, 2000

  In the venerated legal directory Martindale-Hubbell, North Dallas lawyer David A. Schiller appears to lead a flourishing practice. Even though the... More >>

• Wading in

  published January 27, 2000

  The FBI is conducting an investigation into possible criminal violations of environmental laws committed at the Dallas/Fort Worth International... More >>