Word: ranched
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...yards up the road, doing yet another interview, hugging yet another stranger. But here she is, the mother of Casey, 24, who died in Iraq last year, and now the central character in the strange, swirling protest she initiated two miles down the road from President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas...
Wednesday's rains are gone, now, and Cindy Sheehan, who's been ensconced outside President Bush's ranch since last weekend protesting what she calls the needless death of her son in Iraq, shades her eyes as she sits on the roadside along Prairie Chapel Ranch Road. She's doing two interviews simultaneously, one on her cell phone and another with a reporter on the scene. Sheehan is surrounded by some 60 supporters and a small roadside field of white crosses. Signs saying "Jesus Wept," "Bush: Meet with Cindy" and "Iraq = Arabic for Vietnam" line the country road, along with...
...Sivacek's concerns about the war led her to start posting on antiwar web logs, though up til now she had never even joined any protests. As she watches law enforcement officers drive by periodically to ensure protestors remain in a designated area about two miles from the Bush ranch, Sivacek says she's become more confident now that she's met up with some of her virtual friends. She intends to stay at the protest site at least until Saturday - or until she and her fellow protestors are arrested...
...Bush's handling of the war fell to 38% last week, an all-time low. White House officials insist the President will not be scared out of Iraq by the insurgents, much less by falling polls. "We will stay the course," Bush declared last week from his Texas ranch as he began a month's vacation. "We will complete the job in Iraq." Still, Administration officials hit the phones all week long to reassure the factions in Iraq that the U.S. is not going to pull out before Iraqi security forces are ready to take over...
...past four years, and with luck, the next eight, he has taken three days a year to film a fictional story about a kid as he grows from first to twelfth grade.) But as Linklater makes the arrangements, the rest of his office looks like a mini Skywalker Ranch. It's packed with 50 artists on flat-screen computers working on A Scanner Darkly. They're using the same rotoscope process used in Waking Life to turn tape of Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr. and Woody Harrelson into cartoons for Linklater's adaptation of the novel by Philip...