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ODDMENTS
Discontinued Features. No more such features to report.
This category itself now has been discontinued, no longer to
darken these essays with the shades of deservedly forgettable
features from Houston Law Review’s distant past. (We do,
however, confess a favorite, from Decade 1: “Current Materials,”
or citations to “items from other reviews selected by the Houston
Law Review as being of probable interest,” with the suggestion
that, if interested, readers obtain a copy of the article or
comment listed “by writing to the review in which it appeared.”)
By Decade 4, the Review had reached its mature form—at least,
for as long as print may last.
Romancing Reviewers. Decade 4’s most visible romance,
continuing to this day, produced the 1996 wedding (planned
during their bar review prep course) of Board 33 Editor in Chief
D’Andra Millsap and Chief Articles Editor Glen Shu. Their two
children thank them (and, we hope, HLR). Also from Decade 4,
rumors persist of forbidden relations between Review denizens
and alien beings from other UHLC journal planets. Call them
“Illicit Inter-Species Romances.” Of this, we shall say no more.
A Modest Recovery. For the first time in four decades, no
dramatic change occurred in HLR’s cover format. True to form,
however, Board 32 (whose motto appears to have been “no task
too great . . . or too small”) did effect a subtle redesign, adopting
typeset and layout conventions that gave Houston Law Review a
more contemporary look without inflicting upon it another
massive makeover. Apparently, the “gentle Lowlands birds”
referenced in Centered had been, indeed and as advertised,
bearers of “peace and deliverance.”
Faculty Advisors. In his fourth decade as advisor, G. Sidney
Buchanan remained in harness, but supplemented now by a
motley crew of fellow and successor advisors (including one of
these essays’ co-authors). Their contributions will receive greater
attention in Decade 5.
The Class the Robes Fell On. Among Decade 4’s distinctions
were the many members elected or appointed to the judiciary
from Board 32. Of the Board’s 38 members, at least four became
judges: David Bernal and Reece Rondon, both of whom now have
returned to private practice, and, still serving, 151st Civil