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...Connor's independent and pragmatic idea of what America should be was forged in stages. The first took place on the Lazy B, a nearly 200,000-acre cattle ranch in the high desert on the Arizona--New Mexico border. The nearest town was 35 miles away, and the three Day children--Sandra, Ann and Alan--learned early that self-reliance was a necessary survival skill. When rain occasionally wet the arid land, she wrote in Lazy B, a 2002 memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought...
Morning on the high plains. Inside the red frame Hanging Woman school, 30 miles from the nearest paved road in the cattle country east of Sheridan, Wyo., Fifth-Grader Emily Myers, 10, sits at an upright piano practicing Silent Night for the Christmas pageant. Close by, a second grader starts her daily struggle with sums, while a fifth grader plays a geography game on a computer. Both seem oblivious to the plinking of the carol. Outside, snow is falling on waves of brown, sage-spotted hills...
...refrigerator, a washing machine and a TV set. "Imagine," says a Western diplomat. "Some people living in the heart of Guizhou province now see the evening news, with film from Beirut and New York. Three years ago, they did not know anybody lived on the other side of the nearest hill...
Murphy Jones (James Garner) is a prosperous widower who runs the nearest drugstore. His marble soda fountain and his car, a 1927 Studebaker, express his commitment to solid, old-fashioned workmanship, while the antinuke sticker on the Studi's windshield shows that he too is up-to-date on matters of faith and morals...
Some may call me schmaltzy (you may well be right). Others may think I am stating the obvious (you may be right, too). But I think I am just lucky for finding the friends that I have. To my nearest and dearest comrades, you know how you are, thank you for making these four years at Harvard so wonderful; thank you for being there for me whether I was laughing or crying; thank you for giving me the greatest gift of all, your friendship...