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...women's season began last summer, when Harvard alumnus Tommy Lee Jones invited the team to his ranch in San Salvo, Texas. Jones, who is well known in polo circles (which, of course, you know if you read Polo Digest) treated the Crimson to a week of lessons from top players...
...even Bush, who often trusts too freely, trusted him. The enmity began in 1984, when Reagan's re-election campaign was getting under way. Briefing reporters on economic policy at Reagan's Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch, Bush refused to rule out new taxes to cope with a growing budget deficit. Headlines appeared the next day, angering Reagan aides. A few days later, news stories, quoting a senior official, blasted Bush for the misstep. Bush's aides fingered Darman as the source. Bush crossed him off his A list...
...while last week, it looked like a nice way to reduce the deficit. After a lengthy tax dispute, the Federal Government seized the Mustang Ranch near Reno, the state's most venerable house of legal prostitution. U.S. bankruptcy trustees were aiming to operate the place themselves until they could find a buyer. The IRS says owner Joe Conforte owes $13 million in back taxes. The big bordello -- more than 100 rooms on 360 acres -- could indeed have been a moneymaking proposition for the government. A prospectus showed 1986 revenues of $5.6 million. But late last week a bankruptcy judge nixed...
Philip Burgess, of the Center for the New West in Denver, looked out from his urban redoubt on the edge of the plains and declared the advent of an "archipelago society." Modest to small cities are sprinkled across great washes of sparsely populated land, the tiny towns nearly dead, ranches getting bigger. The surviving communities are oases that offer services and cultural amenities for the surrounding areas. Mathers foresaw that intuitively when he arrived 40 years ago. Except for a short spell at first, he has lived in Miles City and driven to and from his ranch 25 miles away...
...femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were...