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Matthew Fox had a hangover the morning after we met. Which made me feel a whole lot better. Hanging out with Fox, you see, can make you feel insecure in your masculinity. All that talk of horseback riding, surfing, chewing tobacco, playing wide receiver at Columbia University, growing up in Wyoming, getting tattoos, marrying an Italian model and never eating during camping trips until he catches a fish will do that to a guy. So when I found out that the Fast Eddies we downed in the members-only club he co-owns in Manhattan Beach, Calif., also...
...began a program to provide therapeutic horseback riding to Israeli kids with disabilities. How is that going...
Sculpture: The Adventure of Modern Sculpture in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Rizzoli; 308 pages; $85) is a wide-ranging study of this art form. In addition to more than 550 photographs (nearly half in color), essays by art historians chart the changes in sculpture from traditional men on horseback to imposing abstractions that are set against desolate landscapes or take up acres and even miles. Examples include Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah and Christo's 24½-mile-long nylon Running Fence in California. These and more familiar pieces by Auguste Rodin...
Perot (pronounced Puh-roe) was born in hardscrabble Texarkana, Texas, the son of a cotton broker and horse trader. He likes to relate that he began busting broncos for money at age eight. As a teenager, he delivered newspapers on horseback in Texarkana's black slums. In 1949 he enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was inspired by the can-do regimentation of the military. But after a four-year minimum Navy hitch, he resigned to join a firm synonymous with the kind of corporate bureaucracy Perot now claims to disdain...
...understand Afghan politics, the theory goes, just go to a game of Buzkashi. After a few hours on a muddy field north of Kabul, watching three dozen men on horseback charge each other to gain possession of a disemboweled calf carcass, the axiom starts to make sense. The game is simple enough: grab the calf from the ground at one end of the field, hoist it over the saddle bow, circle the flag at the opposite end of the field and drop it back in the original chalk circle to score. What makes it difficult is that every other...