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...diverse updatings and amplifications have been sold. Numerous competing volumes have crowded into this commercial niche. Now the birding world is aflutter over the near simultaneous arrival of two more, highly publicized guides: Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin; 384 pages; $20) and David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf; 544 pages...
...authors' names alone impart heavy marquee value to knowledgeable birders. Both Kaufman, 46, and Sibley, 39, dropped out of school (Kaufman before the 11th grade, Sibley after a year in college) to study their feathered friends full time, and both quickly achieved legendary status among the reigning experts for their encyclopedic knowledge and their uncanny skill at field identification. But despite their similar backgrounds and levels of expertise, Kaufman and Sibley evidently have very different notions of what a useful field guide should...
...told him, "but when I do, I want to work with you." Even after Bush's prediction came to pass, the famously crusty Bullock had a series of smackdowns with the Governor. "Bullock was a man of great profanity and chewed his ass out," remembers Republican state senator David Sibley of a phone call between the two men discussing litigation reform. By the end of that evening, Bush was on the phone again offering a compromise. "Bullock got back on and said, 'You're the greatest ever,'" says Sibley. Though the two later clashed on taxes and other issues, Bush...
...told him, "but when I do, I want to work with you." Even when Bush's prediction came to pass, the famously crusty Bullock had a series of smackdowns with the governor. "He was a man of great profanity and chewed his ass out," remembers Republican State Senator David Sibley of a phone call between the two men to discuss litigation reform. By the end of that same evening, Bush was on the phone again offering a compromise. "Bullock got back on and said, 'You're the greatest ever,'" says Sibley. Though the two later clashed on taxes and other...
...spring of 1995, the package stalled over the issue of capping the punitive damages that juries use to punish defendants. Bush and the Republicans wanted a cap of $100,000; Bullock and the Democrats wanted it set at $1 million. When Bush refused to budge, state senator David Sibley, a Republican ally, told him the bill could die. Bush invited Sibley to the mansion for dinner that night. While they were eating, the phone rang. It was Bullock, calling to deliver something he was famous for--an "ass chewing," as it was known around Austin. Bush got chewed...