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...impatient for that. He hired himself out for $100 a day as a landman, searching mineral-rights titles in county courthouses around West Texas. "I basically taught myself," he says. Bush's move to Midland is at the heart of his official myth. Driving out in an old Cutlass with $20,000 and a dream, scraping by in tatty chinos and beat-up shoes. It's as close as the son of a President can get to calling himself a self-made man. The details may be true, but the message is bogus, because it ignores Bush's extraordinary family...
...Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn apart by four horses in Cuzco...
Injured, the two suspects attempted to climb into a getaway car, but their flight was prevented when they crashed into a Cutlass Supreme a few feet ahead on Dunster Street, near the corner of Mass. Ave. Cambridge police officers and ambulances arrived seconds later, taking the suspects, both bleeding, into custody...
...inspect it; late last week 6 ft. of water sloshed around the living room. The family, plus two Chow show dogs and two Persian cats, is living in Mike's blue 1992 Bronco; Mike sleeps on the roof. Nearby, the roof of the family's second car, a 1977 Cutlass, is barely visible above the water. "It's a goner," says Mike...
...sold a bunch of poor-quality cars that broke their promise to the customers. Some of our youngest Cutlass owners got hurt most of all," admits Rock. "If we had kept it up, we were really going to end up as our father's Oldsmobile. Business as usual was eventually going to take us out of business...