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...guru is a handsome, 40-year-old Highlander named Alasdair MacRae, widely regarded as the most dangerous of all "dangerous men"--the insider's term for virtuoso sheepdog handlers. The son of a tenant farmer, MacRae is a newfangled sort of celebrity. In centuries past, those who handled sheepdogs were known as shepherds, and their occupation was so humble that many fled to America to escape it. These days, however, competitive sheepherding ranks among the fastest-growing outdoor sports in the U.S. Fifteen years ago, perhaps a dozen sheepdog trials were held each year; now there are more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Your Dog an Athlete? | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Drew Miriam E. Droller Alexandra B. duPont Brent W. Dusing Katherine D. Earls Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera Fazili John Fedele David P. Feliciano Michael B. Fertik Summer L. Finell Luke Fischbeck Allison M. FitzGerald Kara E. Flavin Ross J. Fleischman Leah C. Fletcher Elizabeth J. Fontana Alysson R. Ford David W. Foster Geoffrey A. Fowler Julia A. Fowler Jason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: World Famous | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...will go. He refuses to make the hollow gesture of publishing an apology to maintain his position at the university. Aimless after his resignation, he decides to visit his daughter Lucy. She lives by herself on an isolated smallholding in the Eastern Cape that she shares with a black farmer, Petrus, in a farmhouse that previously housed a hippie commune to which she belonged. David and Lucys relationship is cordial but distant, and her choice to live off the land seems to be a calculated rejection of his intellectual, urban life. Her decision is informed by a refusal to live...

Author: By Cerdiwen Dovey, | Title: Booker Winner Visits the Smallholdings | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...cheeses I find are farmhouse cheeses, where the farmer knows every cow's name," says Gurdal...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life of Cheese: Say Formaggio Kitchen | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...find that the personality of the farmer trickles down to the product," Gurdal says...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life of Cheese: Say Formaggio Kitchen | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

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