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Terry grew up in Dunlap, Calif. After she dropped out of high school at the end of her junior year, she earned money by cooking and cleaning at a dude ranch and toiling in a fruit-packing shed, where she boxed oranges, peaches and nectarines. She soon realized that John, a carpenter who worked hard from one construction job to the next, had problems and did not have the kind of ambition she was discovering in herself. "He's not kind of a go-getter," says her friend Hernandez. While caring for two children, Terry enrolled in an adult-education...
...Moscow was a breeze of official events compared with St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown. The Russian leader insisted on guiding Bush through a dizzying day of sightseeing in the grand, canal-crossed city. Bush, normally more comfortable with baseball on TV and pickup tours of his Texas ranch, took in Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son at the Hermitage and a ballet at the Mariinsky Theater. At the Hermitage, Putin was asked whether he considered Bush an "art lover." Putin replied, artfully, that the perception in Europe that Americans don't appreciate art is "deeply mistaken...
Though it ended in Tercentenary Theater, Billings’ undergraduate career began at Deep Springs College, a small working cattle ranch in rural California that also offers a highly-regarded two-year liberal arts program...
After two years of ranch work and course work at Deep Springs, he transferred to Harvard. Here he discovered that he had already completed all the requirements for his government concentration. Freed from the pressure to specialize in one area of study, Billings explored the full diversity of classes in Harvard’s catalog...
...will sign a treaty committing both nations to slash their strategic nuclear arsenals from 6,000 warheads to a maximum of 2,200. Then the Russian President will give his American buddy a tour of St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, reciprocating the hospitality Bush showed Putin at his Texas ranch last November. The following week they will be together again, this time in Rome, where they are expected to sign an agreement giving Russia a kind of junior partnership in NATO, the cold war military alliance created to confront the Soviet threat. Rice, who shares her boss's newfound optimism...