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...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...
...There's Always Coke.") As gossips fanned stories of a Michael suicide attempt that were denied by his lawyer, sister Janet and famous friend Elizabeth Taylor jetted to Singapore, the tour's next stop, to give moral support. The Los Angeles police had already searched Jackson's Santa Ynez ranch for lurid videotapes; one report said nothing incriminating was found. The police were questioning other lads, supposedly including child star Macaulay Culkin. And when will results be issued? "It could be tomorrow, it could be two months from now," said L.A.P.D. spokesman Arthur Holmes. "We solve no crime before...
...love being around them," he wrote in his 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk. "There always seem to be a bunch of kids over at the house, and they're always welcome. They energize me -- just being around them." When he welcomed handicapped kids to the ranch, he was no condescending Lord Bountiful looking for a tax write-off; he was their peer, and they were friends he could play with, sing to -- in the purest sense of the word, love...