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...Bush's handling of the war fell to 38% last week, an all-time low. White House officials insist the President will not be scared out of Iraq by the insurgents, much less by falling polls. "We will stay the course," Bush declared last week from his Texas ranch as he began a month's vacation. "We will complete the job in Iraq." Still, Administration officials hit the phones all week long to reassure the factions in Iraq that the U.S. is not going to pull out before Iraqi security forces are ready to take over...
...past four years, and with luck, the next eight, he has taken three days a year to film a fictional story about a kid as he grows from first to twelfth grade.) But as Linklater makes the arrangements, the rest of his office looks like a mini Skywalker Ranch. It's packed with 50 artists on flat-screen computers working on A Scanner Darkly. They're using the same rotoscope process used in Waking Life to turn tape of Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson into cartoons for Linklater's adaptation of the novel by Philip...
...town that worships political power and protocol--especially at the high levels at which O'Connor has been operating for the past 24 years--the Arizona ranch girl, who grew up dreaming not of being the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court but of running cattle as her father and grandfather had before her, has refused to be indulged. She is unassuming, doesn't take herself too seriously (in 2002 O'Connor was inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame) and never lost the sensibility she nurtured under those limitless Arizona skies. She often drew from...
...Connor's independent and pragmatic idea of what America should be was forged in stages. The first took place on the Lazy B, a nearly 200,000-acre cattle ranch in the high desert on the Arizona--New Mexico border. The nearest town was 35 miles away, and the three Day children--Sandra, Ann and Alan--learned early that self-reliance was a necessary survival skill. When rain occasionally wet the arid land, she wrote in Lazy B, a 2002 memoir that she co-authored with Alan, "We were saved again--saved from the ever present threat of drought...
Emma Moriarty (Sally Field) is a poor divorced lady struggling to establish a riding stable on a rundown ranch she is renting with her last pennies. Her willingness to mend her own fences (literally), and muck out the barn while she's at it, exhibits her belief in old-fashioned self-reliance. Her good-natured sensitivity in demonstrating this among many other virtues to her adolescent son (Corey Haim) shows her to be a late-model parent, liberal and humane...