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...well-worn self-justification, but Ned somehow makes it seem fresh and persuasive. What chance does he have, apprenticed as a boy by his desperate mother to a "bushranger," i.e., highway robber, an assistant in crimes before he is old enough to shave? After he serves time in prison and tries to lead an honest life raising horses, the "traps"--police constables--keep persecuting and trumping up charges against him. Finally, he learns, they plan to track down and kill him. Ned, his younger brother Dan and two confederates ambush the ambushers and strike first: "Events continued without relent Dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sympathy for An Outlaw | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Brown's collapse might also be due to fatigue. After an emotional road win over Dartmouth the previous night, Sullivan said the Bears might have worn themselves out running up and down the floor...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper and Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: M. Hoops Gets Knocked Down, But Gets Up Again | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...royal ibis, tired and weather-worn but still defiant, said yesterday that he left North America after hearing rumors that he would soon be restored to the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Search of Freedom, Lampoon's Ibis Flees to China | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...been rolled there like dice. "I'm gonna put a wooden walkway of some kind in here," he says, dodging a vine. Bush can look as if he's clanging around in a blue suit, but he doesn't look lost on the ranch in the Marlboro Man getup: worn black jeans, a blue work shirt and a mustard-colored barn jacket with stains and a corduroy collar. The breast reads: GEORGE W. BUSH, GOVERNOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home On The Range | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Ranger George knows every inch of his acreage. His arm shoots out to point at the different kinds of oaks, the elm and the hackberry. There's an overwhelming brownness as you look out over large portions of his land, which have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home On The Range | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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