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...famously used to spend hours trimming back the branches of trees at the ranch--for more of a view, and to get firewood. Now he looks out a large window at a thick bank of oak trees standing like silent green witnesses to the life on the other side of the glass. Hermann Hesse wrote, "A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening." What does my father think of when he looks out at the oak trees? Does he dream? Feel old longings stir somewhere in him? There are pictures...
With half his department recently laid off and his employer's budget for next year shrinking, Randy Holyfield, an executive for a nonprofit group in Highlands Ranch, Colo., was desperately seeking a safety net. He found one in his home. Holyfield refinanced his mortgage at the lowest rates in 30 years, cashing out a $40,000 cushion while holding his monthly payment steady. "The newspapers say unemployment is still low," offers Holyfield, 43. "Well, I have friends out of work, and others who had to leave the state for a job. It's worse than the numbers indicate...
...LOOK AT ME, I'M SANDRA DAY: On January 29, Random House will publish "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her brother, H. Alan Day. PW calls the book, a childhood memoir, "a quiet account of a bygone...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke from his Negev desert ranch by phone Friday with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief Matt Rees. Excerpts...
...that the attacks showed American vulnerability, and that missile defense was now more urgent than ever. And in the political climate of the war on terrorism, nobody was going to challenge that logic. Moreover the spectacle of Russia's President Vladimir Putin chowing down on barbecue at the Bush ranch allayed fears of new tensions with Moscow, even though the bonhomie failed to produce an agreement to allow the U.S. to proceed. A successful test of a missile interceptor vehicle in November buoyed the administration's confidence, and President Bush looks set to announce U.S. withdrawal from the ABM treaty...