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...several rows of cattle fence to the pen where my beginner is waiting. Another John, the 7th-ranked bull rider in Australia, wraps thick tape around the wrist of my glove, as John the younger straddles the bull and helps a man who could be his father tie a rope around the bull’s flank. (This, Kimbo had explained, is what makes the bull buck, by irritating his genitals. I guess I’d be kicking and snorting...
...more professionals try to maximize their leisure time, many are searching for communities of like-minded people. It's the velvet-rope phenomenon stretched to encompass an entire lifestyle. In the past year, exclusive clubs and gyms have been cropping up from Manhattan to Tokyo, offering state-of-the-art design, personal service and a multitude of social-networking opportunities to a handpicked number of members--all for a price (and the right connections), of course...
Kerry seemed to stand down after he marched through the primaries. To the consternation of many Democrats, he played rope-a-dope as the Bush campaign spent more than $80 million on mostly negative ads against him. Kerry muted his attacks on Bush during the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal and the Marines' embarrassing retreat from Fallujah. I suspect these moves were intentional--part of the newly confident Kerry's grand design for the campaign: to lie low until July, when he announced his running mate in exactly the manner that he intended, and then to make the grand step...
...huge Kerry Edwards banner behind the stage and many t-shirts and placards underneath. They ran around with unshaven faces, wearing t-shirts from past Kerry rallies and police-style radios strapped to their shoulders, making sure that every detail of the rally, from the flags to the rope line music, would be perfect. Like me, they had been up all night. Unlike me, they would catch flights that very afternoon to build the site of a rally in Raleigh, N.C., which drew 25,000 people four days later...
...patriotic as your neighbor." But Bush also sees a change in how people respond to him since he was last on the campaign trail--although that may say more about the times we are living in than anything he has said or done. When he works the rope line, he says, "the thing they say different now than four years ago is, 'Mr. President, we pray for you.' Maybe every other person says it, or at least every third. And it matters a lot. It has made being the President of the United States a heck of a lot easier...