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...delicate and the dangerous meet in the ranch lands of South Texas. In the winter, quail gather in the soft gold of prairie sedge, but snakes, scorpions and wild-boar-like javelina lurk too. In 1999 a fourth-generation South Texas rancher named Tobin Armstrong testified before Congress that he sometimes found illegal immigrants dead of dehydration in the unforgiving brush of his 49,300-acre ranch. It was there that Vice President Dick Cheney, out with a hunting party that included Tobin's daughter Katharine, accidentally sprayed attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot. What took place in the hours before...
...recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden, are allowing speculation to float about their prospective candidacies. Still others are lurking on the sidelines, including former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, who, as a political novice, won a hard-fought race in the Toronto suburb...
After walking Tobin, Mankiw rouses his 14-year old daughter so that she can catch the 7:00 a.m. bus. He says his daughter enjoys math and history. “I always took that as a sign that she may be a future economist,” Mankiw says...
...professor typically wakes up in his 1930s brick colonial in Wellesley between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. to take his border terrier Tobin for a walk. Tobin, who is named after Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, is the brown-furred successor to Keynes, Mankiw’s last dog. The real-life Tobin was a follower of economist John Maynard Keynes, as well...
...ever met in my life,” said Bruster, who as a graduate student at Harvard helped Evans prepare his edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Evans was also generous in sharing his office space with former students and younger scholars, said Professor of English John Tobin of the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Tobin, who worked with Evans on the second edition of The Riverside Shakespeare, said he has fond memories of mornings spent with Evans in his Widener office. “He was extremely generous with his advice and his support,” Tobin said...