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February 1995
Keeping an eye on the state's highest court
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South Texas College of Law students, from left, Michael Temple, Brian Casey, Steven Hudgins and Lance
Stricklin clerked at the Texas Supreme Court during the fall semester. Recent STCL graduate Richard Spies
took the photo.
A 3L's brush with greatness
STCL student's mom visits Oprah
By BRIAN CASEY
I would like to announce with
great pride the publication of "The
Rapist's Wife by Kathryn Casey,
my mother. It's her first book, a true-
crime book recounting the coura-
geous struggle of a Houston-area
woman, Linda Bergstrom, who dis-
covered her husband was a serial
rapist. Linda attempted to alert Hous-
ton police for two years before her
concerns were taken seriously. When
her husband, James Bergstrom, was
arrested in March 1992, he admitted
attacking as many as 30 women in the
Houston area. He is now serving a
99-year prison sentence.
Apparently, the book is gen-
erating interest in talk-show circles.
My mother went to Chicago with
Linda to appear on "Oprah! "The seg-
ment is scheduled to play sometime
around the end of January.
Aditionally, plans are in the works for
a trip to New York to appear on "The
Maury Povich Show."
My mother's decade-long
career as ajournliast was pretty excit-
ing even before she hit the talk-show
circuit. In the past, she's written on a
wide range of topics, including the
murder of Texas folksinger John
Vandiver for Rolling Stone, and ce-
lebrity interviews with The Judds,
Reba McEntire, Patrick Swayze,
Roseanne, Christy Brinkley, Gloria
Estefan, Betty Ford and Hillary
Clinton for Ladies' Home Journal
If you're not a talk show junkie
and won't be able to catch my mother
on TV, it's okay. Just buy her book
(I'm hoping for a percentage). You'll
find it in local bookstores' recent re-
leases or true crime sections.
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By BUFORD TERRELL
(Editor's Note: This is one of a
series of computer-related columns
Professor Terrell is writing for An-
notations this year. This issue's
topic: Buying a computer.)
One of the questions I am
asked most often is, "What kind of
computer do I need to buy?" Two
other questions must be answered
in order to answer that one: Por-
table or desktop? and Macintosh
or MD-DOS?
Portable or Desktop
Portable computers « ei-
ther the laptop or notebook size —
have many advantages. The most
important, of course, is portability.
They can go to class or work, to the
library or on trips. For small homes
or apartments like many of us have,
they are ideal for use in limited
space. Because they are built to
travel, portable computers are
more rugged than desktops - a
real advantage in homes with rug
rats or pets.
Modern portables are just
as capable as their larger cousins,
having the same processors, graph-
ics standards and ports. No func-
tionality is given up when one
selects a portable computer.
However, they do have
some disadvantages. In the first
place, small costs big: Portable
computers are several hundred
dollars more expensive than their
full-sizecounterparts. They are also
less standardized and modular, so
that upgrading or enlarging can be
difficult, more expensive or even
impossible. Many people find the
smaller keyboards and smaller,
dimmer screens uncomfortable to
use for extended periods of time.
For most students, though,
if they can afford the price, the
portable is probably the better first
choice. The ability to take it to the
library or class orto a friend's house
to work on a project is a major
asset. Most students do not do the
extended heavy work that makes
larger keyboards and monitors so
beneficial.
The best, and most expen-
sive, solution is to have one of
each; but few of us can afford that
solution. Docking stations, allow-
ing portable computers to connect
with full-sized accessories like
keyboards, monitors and disk
drives, are in between, both in
price and in functionality.
Macintosh or MS-Dos
Many believe that Apple's
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