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...raged there forever, and another is blowing this summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will be in the minority...
Mathers decided in 1951 that the Texas Panhandle, where he grew up, was too crowded and expensive for cattlemen. He headed north "for cheap grass," to the border of Rosebud and Custer counties, just above Miles City, Mont. Mathers did not trail a herd a thousand miles across the powdery plains, fending off Kiowa and Comanche, or ford the snake-infested Nueces River. Instead, he put 200 Herefords on the Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought...
...Wiesel's moral authority that brought together Vaclav Havel and Nelson Mandela; Jimmy Carter and Francois Mitterrand; the authors Gunter Grass and Nadine Gordimer; Chai Ling and Li Lu, leaders of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square -- an astonishing collection of Nobel prizewinners, professors, rectors, saints. A man could not make his way through the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo without ricocheting off one paragon or another. Such saturations of virtue and celebrity gave me a jolt of anxiety: this is a perfect target for a bomb. But the choice of Oslo was canny. Norway has its immunities...
...Mandela's head as he sat at the conference table -- a nimbus of television light around his charcoal hair, the man enveloped in utter stillness, the most thorough self-possession I have ever beheld. Does 27 years in prison make a man so calm? As I listened to Gunter Grass (a stolid German with some huge gravity pulling him earthward) discussing the Nazis, my mind drifted to Vaclav Havel, who I decided is an alert woodland creature. Jimmy Carter shines with a likable sweetness, but he is tougher than you may think...
...smokers seem to agree. "It was bad enough when they took our vodka away," grumbled a man in a tobacco line. "There was eau de cologne or home brew to replace it. But what do you smoke instead of tobacco?" Suggested a young man next to him: "Try some grass...