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...Bush still breaks out the rhetorical ball peen hammer when he can, of course. He stubbornly dodged questions about the Sept. 6 attack by Israel on suspected nuclear weapons sites in Syria and, when pressed, shot back at persistent reporters, "This is not my first rodeo." Asked what his definition of torture is, he repeated the now near-meaningless assertion, "We don't torture." On diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program, he said he had told third countries, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran...
...Everybody seems upset at Vick for mistreating dogs, yet where's the outcry over jockeys who beat horses as they race them to exhaustion, rodeo riders who torture calves and bulls, and sled-dog drivers who run their dogs for hours through freezing weather? Jerry Sturdivant, Las Vegas...
Everybody seems upset at Vick for mistreating dogs, yet where's the outcry over jockeys who beat horses as they race them to exhaustion, rodeo riders who torture calves and bulls, and sled-dog drivers who run their dogs for hours through freezing weather? Jerry Sturdivant, LAS VEGAS...
FANS ARGUED ABOUT IT: WAS he better at bull riding or bareback riding--or just the greatest rough-stock rider ever? One thing was not in dispute: Hall of Famer Jim Shoulders, the "Babe Ruth of rodeo cowboys," had an unusual tolerance for pain. Among the bones he broke while riding to a record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred...
Eight days after 31 Wyoming Republicans filed their names to fill the state's vacant Senate seat, an orthopedic surgeon and former rodeo physician has emerged as the newest U.S. Senator. Gov. Dave Freudenthal announced earlier today that Dr. John Barrasso will assume the Senate seat of the late Senator Craig Thomas, who died of leukemia on June...