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...think you have to produce. You have to stand up for what you think is right. You have to enter the dialogue. I did not know Secretary Rumsfeld well before he called me back. It was a big surprise. I had like four days notice. I was in my truck and his office called me. I entered it reluctantly. It wasn't something that I wanted to do. But the nation is at war. I asked him hard questions about whether he was willing to transform the Army the way I felt we had to do it and create...
...honest dialogue. We don't agree on everything. But he's the boss. I'm not the boss. The day that we can't agree on something that weighs deep inside of me-that's got to do with values, principles, right and wrong-I've got my truck with my keys out there. That's easy...
CONVICTION OVERTURNED. Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 48, former middleweight boxing contender who, along with Truck Driver John Artis, was convicted in 1967 of shooting three people in a Paterson, N.J., tavern; by a U.S. district judge, on the ground that the verdict was based on prejudice and prosecutors' errors. The case received national attention in 1976, when the New Jersey Supreme Court threw out the original convictions. Bob Dylan championed Carter's plight in song and, along with Boxer Muhammad Ali, helped raise a $600,000 defense fund. The two men were convicted again in a retrial after which Carter served...
Cowpuncher Ross Knox stays behind, watching the coming dawn. Daylight reveals a clash of cultures, old and new. Less than 50 ft. from the fire stands a pickup truck that hauls the cook wagon from camp to camp. In the distance, 18-wheelers fly down Interstate 40. As his friends ride off to round up cattle, Knox ambles back to the fire for another cup of coffee...
Like the pickup truck and Interstate 40, Knox fails to fit Hollywood's western stereotype: he is a cowboy poet. Despite the apparent oxymoron, verse has its place on the range, and Knox and his fellow horseback balladeers capture well the cowboy's changing world...