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...Perry and Hutchison have much in common: Both were cheerleaders in college, she at the University of Texas, he at rival Texas A&M. Both have moved up through the ranks in Texas politics, serving as members of the Texas house of representatives, then holding state office - Perry, a rancher and U.S. Air Force pilot, as agriculture commissioner and then lieutenant governor, and Hutchison, a former television reporter and lawyer, as state treasurer. But the two rivals draw their support from different wings of the Republican Party. Perry has found strength among conservative Christian Republicans, while Hutchison gets high marks...
...chief complaints about Salazar - a rancher who worked as Colorado's attorney general before his election to the Senate in 2004 - center on his ties to the ranching and mining industries and some of his votes as a Senator. As attorney general, he threatened to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - which he would lead as Interior Secretary - over the listing of the black-tailed prairie dog as endangered. (In Colorado, the animal is still classified as a "pest" to ranchers...
...manager, Mike Devery, defended the costly operation, saying the animals were listed as vulnerable under the state's Nature Conservation Act, which labels crocodiles over 13 feet long as "iconic." But the kid-glove treatment outraged many locals, including Federal Parliamentarian Bob Katter, a cowboy-hatted, blunt-spoken cattle rancher whose 218,000 square-mile electoral district is home to thousands of wild crocodiles...
...structures on private property. “Running Fence,” one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s earlier projects, featured an 18-foot-high curtained fence running 24 miles through northern California. To obtain permission for the project, the artists negotiated contracts with 59 cattle ranchers. “I remember I made a few boo-boos the first few days,” Jeanne-Claude said in a clip from a documentary that was shown at the event. “I would knock on the door at a reasonable time, like...
Halfway through the film, evil rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) eludes the practiced clutches of lawman Virgil Cole (Ed Harris). "I told you you'd never hang me," Bragg boasts, and Virgil replies, more quietly, "Never ain't here...