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Such sentiments come easily to Cavazos, a cattle foreman's son who grew up on the King Ranch in south Texas and went on to earn a Ph.D. in physiology. Before being named president of Texas Tech University, his alma mater, in 1980, he spent five years as dean of the school of medicine at Tufts University. In both posts Cavazos gained a reputation for relaxed geniality -- and a backbone of steel. "If he gets pushed too far, watch out," says Michael Collins, assistant dean for government and medical affairs at Tufts Medical School. His tenacity was abundantly clear...
Long before I reach Arizona, I leave Highway I-10 and bump along ranch roads that bring the border back into view. In Columbus, N. Mex., which the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa raided in 1916, John Alcorn, 69, gestures in the direction of the border. "Had 16 teeth out and a new set of dentures made over in Palomas last week," he says, massaging his gums. "Would have cost me $2,000 in the U.S. I paid $600 over there, and the dentist did a damn good job." Health care is a relatively new economic trade-off, but the principles...
...which the workers do everything they can to make customers happy? That proposition is being put forward by a group of Nevada entrepreneurs, led by lawyer Peter Perry and real estate developer Donald Clough, that is trying to attract investors for an unusual buyout. The target: Nevada's Mustang Ranch, the largest legalized brothel...
...year-old bordello, situated on two adjacent sites near Reno, more than 100 "independent contractors" generated $917,000 in profits last year on ^ $5.4 million in revenues. By selling shares for $20 apiece, the group plans to raise $23.3 million, $18 million of which would go to buying the ranch from its current owners, Joseph and Sally Conforte. Under its new ownership, the firm could function much like any other publicly held company. Except that its method of making money is not legal in any state besides Nevada...
Fitzwater wasn't jesting. Since Ronald Reagan's return from his Santa Barbara ranch, the White House has been transformed into a branch office of Bush campaign headquarters; White House officials have donned red-white-and- blue neckties printed with PUSH FOR BUSH. After the neckties were distributed at a Cabinet meeting, the President called upon his top officers to become surrogate speakers for Bush. Nearly every presidential trip and ceremony has been turned into a showcase for the heir apparent...