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...Iraq. When his opponents seized coalition chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer’s final report as conclusive evidence that the justification for the war had been a farce, the President did not speak up to set the record straight. When Cindy Sheehan haunted the gates of his Crawford ranch and precipitated a flood of anti-war sentiment, the President remained silent. Amidst ever-accumulating incidents of roadside bombs killing American troops and the resulting public discontent with his administration’s war policy, the President responded only by regurgitating stale party lines during press conferences and minor speeches...
...ranchers in Montana say they are in favor of the way the President handles dry brush and scrub on the Crawford ranch...
...label “Brokeback Mountain” as “the gay cowboy” movie is fundamentally inaccurate. Yes, the two main characters are men—specifically, Wyoming ranch hands. And, during a chilly 1963 summer, they bide their time herding sheep and plunging tumultuously into a fervid romance.But words like “gay” are the sort of reductive labels against which this movie kicks and spits. The relationship between gruff, gravel-mouthed Ennis (Heath Ledger—“A Knight’s Tale”) and the more nimble...
...have tended to focus on relatively low-value projects like predicting the next quarter's sales. Google, for example, has been conducting an internal market to predict project-completion and product-launch dates. But given the market system's track record, corporations are about to move to bet-the-ranch-type decisions. "We're about to have a Cambrian explosion of the technology," says Servan- Schreiber...
Jackson Speaks In a carefully staged four-minute live television address from his Neverland Valley Ranch in California, Michael Jackson came out of seclusion to declare that he is ''totally innocent'' of the ''disgusting'' child-molestation allegations that have been leveled against him and that he has been manipulated by the ''terrible mass media.'' Fighting back tears, he revealed that police, armed with a search warrant, last week photographed his genitals and buttocks in what he called ''the most humiliating ordeal of my life...