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...concept a year ago in Austin, Texas, then set it aside for the primaries. The topic popped up again during his Sunday phone conferences with Condoleezza Rice and other aides. On May 2, Bush summoned Rice, defense expert Paul Wolfowitz and campaign-policy director Josh Bolton to his new ranch outside Waco to nail down a proposal to announce in time to color this week's U.S.-Russia summit. (Before getting to business, Bush insisted on grabbing a pickup truck and taking the three on an off-road tour of his property...
Others have used the books to open a new dialogue with parents or older friends from that time. In Montana, Dennis Tilton of the Shooting Star ranch south of Livingston approached me in a sporting-goods store to share his story. The year before, his father had been in failing health and almost blind. Tilton drove to town, bought The Greatest Generation and returned to his father's side. "I read it aloud to him every day between Christmas and New Year's," Tilton told me. "It was the most meaningful father-son time we'd ever had. We kept...
...Mark's best-known projects. One is a series of portraits of the Damms, a California family she first came upon in 1987 when they were homeless and living mostly out of their car. Seven years later, she photographed them again, when they were squatters on an abandoned ranch. In some of the pictures the parents, both heavy drug users, look like pure arsenic--dark-eyed, doped up and listless, though capable of loving gestures, all of which only makes more affecting how much their children seem to need them anyway...
After Jordan shopped around for his physical care--he went to three different facilities for three different cancers--he discovered his spiritual cure at a summer camp his wife Dorothy founded in 1982 for kids with cancer. He told Imus, who's just built the Imus Ranch for sick children, how he was particularly affected by Corey Grier, a natural leader, who was told by his doctors that his 16th summer would be his last. But Grier made it through the year and returned to Camp Sunshine for his 17th birthday. After celebrating with cake and ice cream...
...privilege of playing Anakin Skywalker in the next two installments of the Star Wars franchise, HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN says he would have been happy to walk away with the souvenirs of the audition process: "I got to meet George Lucas, hang out at Skywalker Ranch, and I got a couple of new hats," he reports. As it turns out, the 19-year-old, all but unknown Canadian muscled out some of the best-known actors in North America (reportedly including Leonardo DiCaprio) to claim the starring role. Picking up the part from JAKE LLOYD, who starred in Episode 1, Christensen will...