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SOUTHERN UTAH THUNDERBIRDS Cedar City, Utah Record: 24-5 Sample Fight Song Lyric: "Go go go/Fight fight fight/Win T-birds" Reason to Root for Them: Awarded Mid-Continent Conference Sportsmanship prize...
...that last, not-leaving part that has spooked Disney's competitors and kicked off a miniboom in Southern California theme-park construction. Knott's Berry Farm, owned by Cedar Fair L.P., a publically traded, Ohio-based company that owns nine amusement parks across the country, has just spent nearly $70 million on a new luxury hotel, a 13-acre water park, Soak City U.S.A., and a thrill ride, Perilous Plunge, which it calls the tallest (115 ft.) and steepest (75[degree] angle) water ride of its kind. Knott's is located only seven miles down the freeway from Disneyland...
...starts talking about Yale. "I must admit that I thought some of them thought those of us from the South didn't get it," he says, swatting the ball. "That was just fine with me." Thwack goes the racquet. He says he's going to go clear the cedar, and I leave. He walks inside, and calls Jim Baker...
Bush's "serenity" over that period occasionally bordered on what seemed like total detachment. He spent days out at his ranch in remote Crawford, Texas, hacking away at cedar undergrowth. He dispatched Dick Cheney to Washington to start building a new Administration, in case one was needed. And at the very instant when the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Bush v. Gore were being broadcast to the public last Monday, a moment when so many Americans were riveted to their television sets and radios, Bush left his office and went...
...different they are, though each admirable in his own way. Gore masters the details; when talking about the contest, he would refer to facts and stories he'd downloaded onto his Blackberry pocket e-mail device. Bush is impatient with distracting details, just as he is with the cedar undergrowth on his ranch, which he clears with a vengeance because it distracts his view of the big picture. Gore personally managed his legal strategy and wrote his own statements on his laptop. Bush delegates with abandon; during our hours at the ranch, while his lead was slipping in the hand...