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Johnson's ranch is a nice spread of 2,700 acres in the hill country just west of Austin, without question some of the prettiest land in Texas. Johnson was born in a house on the property and first attended school in a one-room schoolhouse that is also on the ranch. His father and grandfather had farmed and ranched there. While Johnson used the ranch as a retreat, he tried to make it pay too. He had a foreman who lived on the property and bred Hereford cattle for show. Johnson hated being thought of as a hick...
...better skid, slide and stumble as fast as your flailing limbs can carry you to Meet the Parents. It is the work of director Jay Roach, whose Austin Powers movies were intermittently funny but not what anyone would call intricately constructed machines. What those movies needed was a couple of skilled tool-and-die makers like Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, who wrote this screenplay. And a bunch of actors, led by Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, who understand that palpable reality will always trump frenzied fantasy when it comes to getting laughs...
...focus of an FBI investigation into the mysterious mailing of GEORGE W. BUSH's confidential debate materials, YVETTE LOZANO knew her job working for the Bush campaign might raise a few eyebrows. "It's kind of weird," she told an acquaintance as she drove down a street in Austin, Texas, a few months ago, "because we're all Democrats." For that reason and others, Lozano, an assistant to MARK MCKINNON, Bush's chief media adviser, was under a cloud of suspicion last week in a scandal that has become a major distraction for the Bush campaign less than six weeks...
That faith was placed under severe strain last week as FBI agents concentrated on Lozano and Maverick Media in their investigation of how a videotape and briefing book of Bush's debate preparations were mailed from Austin to an AL GORE confidant on Sept. 13. The confidant, TOM DOWNEY, turned the package over to the FBI immediately. Last week officials revealed that an Austin post-office security camera showed Lozano mailing a package two days before the debate materials arrived at Downey's office. The time of Lozano's visit corresponds to the postage stamp on the package sent...
...quick to point out, the Gore campaign far outspends them on polling ($1.25 million to $690,000 this year). But those figures obscure the fact that much of the data Bush uses is paid for by the Republican National Committee, whose ads are coordinated with the team in Austin. Even mock anti-Bush ads have been tested to see where the candidate is most vulnerable. Last week Castellanos and a bevy of R.N.C. officials sipped beer while they watched from behind a one-way mirror as 30 Virginians registered on dial-a-meters their reactions to ads attacking Gore...