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...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...didn't help. Ultimately, though, her reasons were patriotic. "I want to see the film industry progress here," she says. "Even if it means I'll have trouble paying rent." Gardiner may work on another picture with Stephan Elliott, the director of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. And she still considers offers from Hollywood, some of whose amenities she says she misses. Such as? "Valet parking...
...months of fiscal year 1996. The administration is seeking $5.1 billion for education, high technology and other programs on President Clinton's agenda. The President also wishes to delete provisions in the bill allowing increased logging on federal lands and easier development of wetlands in California's Mojave desert. Congress has met the President halfway, restoring nearly $4 billion to the spending bill. But the White House is still demanding an additional $1.8 billion for Head Start, veterans medical care and other programs. Meanwhile, Clinton is expected to sign another piece of legislation that will raise the debt ceiling, averting...
History shows that the White House has natural advantages. Take this past week. The President was making peace and photo ops in a Middle East desert, while the nominee was specifying how to ease the Social Security earnings test. The beauty of incumbency is that the President can sit back and wait. In the current political firmament, Dole proposes, Clinton disposes. And in so doing, Dole could even force Clinton to show something like consistency. The President the Dole campaign accuses of "talking right and governing left" could become the President who really does, finally, end welfare as we know...
...Golf spring trip to Palm Desert...