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Newt & Co. say they are simply trying to bring reason to federal regulation. They relish citing examples of overzealous enforcement-the sheep rancher who was fined $4,000 for shooting a grizzly bear that was attacking him, or the landowners who were sent to jail for building on "wetlands," a broad term that regulators have applied to property that contains standing water for as little as 11 days in a year...
Consider the group's recent successes. Pitt has gained star status since his leading role as a wild-hearted rancher in Legends of the Fall, the country's No. 1 box-office hit for four weeks this winter. Ethereal beauties Ryder and Thurman earned Oscar nominations last week- Ryder for her role as Jo in Gillian Armstrong's Little Women and Thurman for her portrayal of a heroin-sniffing Mob wife in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Hawke has been winning rave reviews for his role as a charmingly scruffy, Auden-quoting romantic in Before Sunrise. In the meantime, Mary...
...gorged gully. In Grimes County, three children drowned when currents washed the car in which they were riding off the road. In Hardin County, a construction worker who decided to take a dip in the floodwaters was swept away and lost. In San Jacinto County, the body of a rancher was discovered among his herd of drowned cattle...
...stories have roots in rural Ontario, where Munro, the daughter of a mink rancher, grew up. The area seems as familiar as the American Midwest, a flat, unexciting setting where even the bizarre can be made to seem ordinary. A missing girl returns to tell about an encounter with a spaceship. The extraterrestrials are not green and stalky but all-Canadian kids wearing seersucker sunsuits. This, of course, is an unbelievable fiction within a totally credible fiction. Munro demonstrates her mastery of this linkage throughout Open Secrets, where each story is richer and more satisfying than most novels...
...ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely not now, when he is Hollywood's new best bet for middle-aged stardom. If there were a word for Jones, it'd have to be extraornery...