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Felipe, 23, a construction worker, says he didn't know any better when he and a buddy cruised down the streets of Edwards, Colo., in their Chevy Blazer last month, swilling Tecate beer and blasting disco music through the late-night stillness. "Hey, we do that all the time back home in Mexico," Felipe says, shrugging. But the cops in Edwards nailed him for driving under the influence and disturbing the peace. Now, facing an additional felony charge of giving a false name, "Juan Romero," Felipe has agreed to an unusual penance. In exchange for a softer sentence...
This is the kind of place where even Coloradans go to get away from it all. A high desert expanse in the center of the Uncompahgre Valley, Montrose, Colo., is near such world-class mountain recreation areas as Telluride and Aspen. But this western Rockies town, with its 274 days a year of sunshine, manages to remain a quiet, affordable enclave in a rapidly growing state of outdoor buffs...
MONTROSE, COLO...
...Littleton, Colo., a private school assembly, a public service and a candlelight vigil will be held today in memory of the students who died at Columbine High School exactly one year...
Fitzgerald's most interesting chapter is her first - her effort to locate Reagan as a figure in American myth, specifically, in exceptionalism and the salvation doctrine of the American civil religion. In 1979, Reagan visited the NORAD base hollowed out of the core of Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., the nerve center of American air defenses. The base commander told Reagan that from there, the military could track an incoming nuclear missile but could do nothing to stop it. Fitzgerald writes: "[The story] resonates with Biblical and mythological overtones... Reagan can be seen as the innocent, the American Everyman...