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...evening, though, there was nothing for the Bush camp to say that was worth shuttling the candidate up from the ranch. Just after 7 p.m., James Baker could only remind reporters that the 11th Circuit Court had invited them back to Atlanta to talk hand counts when Florida was finished with them, and the Supreme Court had merely made a holding action. "We remain confident," he said, that the courts would eventually fall in behind Harris...
...haven't been invited to Bush's ranch the way my mother was to Johnson's, but after covering John McCain in the primaries, I spent a weekend with a colleague and our wives at McCain's mountain cabin. The stories and insights and blunt talk crackled like fireworks. As we left, I had an urge that I still can't shake. I thought, "I've gotta tell Mom about this...
...Avenue along the eight blocks to the celebration site. The colored lights were flashing on the capitol; it's a miracle no one was electrocuted in the sweeping rain. At the rally the television screens switched to a video of Bush on the trail, at home and on the ranch, all to the tune of Signed, Sealed, Delivered...
...Allen invented the style that TV hosts from David Letterman to Craig Kilborn are still developing. He looked for comedy in everyday trivia, taking a mike into the audience or turning on a camera outside the studio and simply commenting on people coming in and out of the Hollywood Ranch Market across the street. In one recurring bit, he would pick up a copy of the New York Daily News, don a cornball press hat and read angry letters to the editor, with all the vehemence the unseen correspondents would have wanted. He loved concocting wild physical bits, which...
...about leaving drab England for sunny L.A., where he captured on canvas the colors that shimmer across swimming pools. Writer Maxine Hong Kingston discusses how growing up in a Chinese home in racially integrated Stockton helped her learn about different sensibilities. Jazzman Dave Brubeck, who grew up on a ranch in Ione, recalls how he heard polyrhythms in the sound of a galloping horse. As writer and native daughter Joan Didion notes, "California influenced everything about...