Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is a lesson to be learned from what occurred in a compound the Cowboys call Valley Ranch -- which, naturally, is neither a ranch nor in a valley -- it is not that football has at last been put into proper perspective in Texas. That will not happen in anyone's lifetime. Rather, it is that old- fashioned hubris, envy and ego are as much a part of running a professional football team as calling draw plays on third down and getting dunked with Gatorade...
...missed Friday's show should not despair: this spring's folk lineup features a suprising number of worldclass masters. This year's Women in Folk Rock show at the Somerville Theater is March 12, and Northern Lights will be playing April 30 along with The Austin Lounge Lizards and Ranch Romance, also at the Somerville...
...those who were residents of Waco last year, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were laying siege to David Koresh and his followers, few have more painful memories than Robert and Marcia Spoon, who live on narrow Double EE Ranch Road, across from Mount Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across...
...spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch-style unit. When the buyer of the home later became insolvent, Hillary and her husband Bill Clinton bought the property out of bankruptcy and resold it in 1988 for $28,000 to its present owner. Last month the Justice Department began to subpoena documents pertaining to sales of Whitewater lots...
...many rings can a circus have? Especially a tabloid freak show like the Michael Jackson affair? The star returned from medical seclusion in London to cooperate with authorities investigating sexual-abuse charges against him. But on his Neverland Ranch in California, Jackson seemed only the main attraction in a seven-ring circus of horror...