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...Mockbee is an advocate of what is called "site-specific" architecture, so he made sure that the home picked up qualities of the area's cultural heritage, from its antebellum porches to the curves of silos. And in keeping with the studio's philosophy of building with local and inexpensive materials, the students scavenged for supplies, gathering bales of hay for the walls and sheets of acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed...
Remember when kids did yard work during the summer? Now they're all at space camp or clown school or starting their own dotcoms. Doing a mundane job at home for low or no pay--such as helping paint the porch--has absolutely no allure. So be prepared: when you ask your kid to weed a row of tomatoes, she will look at you as if to say, "What's my motivation...
...seeing the kind, kids-minded, lure-the-soccer-moms Bush here, backed with multicultural, homey images: Kids run down a school hallway, a child reads in a porch swing. "The Bush education agenda," says a warm female voiceover. "Reform Head Start. Focus on reading. Restore local control. Triple funding for character education." Triple what for what? In a Bush administration, will we be giving classes in not having affairs with interns half your...
...others hadn't been on the phone constantly with the candidate for three months, sharing confidences, offering advice and proving their worthiness. They hadn't visited Bush in the Governor's Mansion and out at Dubya's new ranch near Waco, where the two had sat on the porch, taking in the endless view of the central Texas desert. And they had never bonded, as Bush and Cheney had, over their love of the West's open spaces, their shared conservative philosophy and their experiences in the oil business. No wonder it didn't take long for Bush to agree...
...with Cheney to talk about potential running mates. Over lunch with his wife Laura and two aides, Bush gestured in Cheney's direction. "This would really be the best man if he would do it. I wish he would." After lunch, Bush and Cheney were alone on the back porch, and Cheney said he had changed his mind and was willing to be considered. He credits Bush's talent for persuasion for his conversion. "He grows on you," Cheney told TIME last Friday. "He's got a very important trait for a leader, the ability to convince people...