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Fortunately, it is easy to find out the particular idiosyncrasies of each establishment by visiting the inn's website and then communicating with the owner via e-mail. B-and-B owners depend increasingly on the Internet to attract and book guests and to communicate with them before they arrive. (Websites like www.bestinns.net www.innplace.com or www.BedandBreakfast.com will lead you to countless prospects...
...long ago, George W. Bush decided to become, like Lyndon Johnson before him, a ranch owner. But few outside Texas have understood what a revealing decision that...
...Unlike Johnson, Bush makes no pretense that the ranch will be a working enterprise. He says he'll spend his time there reading or walking with Laura or doing chores around the property. In other words, Bush will not be a rancher. He will be something different--a ranch owner...
...like George W. Bush. They want a place in the country where they can hunt, fish, sit with their wife on the porch in the evening, and maybe run just enough cattle to qualify for an agricultural tax exemption. But the biggest reward is that being a ranch owner fulfills their belief that at heart they are country boys. They will go to the country dances on Saturday night and attend the local church on Sunday and come back to work Monday feeling "restored...
...case their eyes are fixed on the top prize in the Mayflower Dog Show. You wouldn't call them a statistically accurate cross section of American life. How many of us, after all, are literally born with two left feet, as is co-writer Eugene Levy's character, co-owner of a cool little Norwich terrier? Few of us want to win anything as badly as does Parker Posey and Michael Hitchcock's yuppie couple who have reduced their Weimaraner to a state of clinical depression. You could also argue that gay couples are overrepresented in this slice of life...