Word: ranches
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Whether acting up a dust storm or working the ranch or raising horses for polo (his team recently won the U.S. Polo Association's Western Challenge Cup), Jones stays rooted in the Texas soil. "Natives of my region," he says, "are heirs to a society whose language, manners, cuisine, habits of dress, transportation, ways of socializing with one another are not so removed from location as others are. We're still tied to a place. We happen to think it's important to be from some place...
...months to land a new job with Diners Club, at 15% less pay. "The determining factor in staying was looking at the economy of California and the economy of Colorado -- they seemed to be heading in opposite directions," he says, standing in back of his brick house in Highlands Ranch, Denver's fastest-growing suburb, in full view of the Front Range that marks the east wall of the Rockies. "I look back on this a lot and wonder if we did the right thing. But when we're out for a walk watching the mountains at sunset, I know...
...shoot it. That is how it's always been -- dogs can threaten the livestock, or the tulips, so you can shoot 'em. This spelled trouble near the leathery Colorado town of Durango last month after the Bakers, a large Californian family, moved in next to an old ranch. The Californians' golden retriever ventured onto the ranch property and ate a couple of chickens. The Californians duly apologized, but the ranchers remained incensed. And soon after, when the dog strayed across again, sure enough, the ranchers shot it. The Californians wrote a letter to the editor of the Durango Herald wailing...
...CALLS HIS RANCH NEVERLAND. HE surrounds himself with young boys. He speaks in a child's whisper. He seems to float onstage. And he doesn't want to grow up. Michael Jackson has identified so closely with Peter Pan that for years he hoped to star in a Steven Spielberg film version of the James M. Barrie play. It might have been the first extraterrestrial autobiography...
...Tokyo summit); and Telluride, Colorado (too small). Not that the decision came easily, or could have been carried out if seven-day-advance-purchase airline tickets were a factor. Unlike most Presidents, Clinton is a man without a country house -- no + Kennebunkport or Gettysburg farm, no Pedernales or California ranch. Moreover, like most Democrats, he doesn't seem to kick back as well as Republicans. Richard Nixon had no trouble repairing to San Clemente for 31 days in one sitting, and Ronald Reagan clocked 200 days at his spread by the first year of his second term...