Word: ranches
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pool camera. Bush's photo-op on the ranch Saturday was of a Republican ruling council, looking and sounding sincere but still very capable of scaring the other half of the country to death. Bush and Cheney pulled up tastefully patterned armchairs for House Speaker Denny Hastert, with a wrestling-coach glisten on his face, and Senate boss Trent Lott, looking odd in denim. (Tom DeLay had to wait in the shed until the TV crew left.) Bush was an affable host, sharing the soundbites near-equally, and when it was his turn, he talked at some length about legislation...
...Home on the Ranch...
...Bush isn't wavering from his version of passive resistance, intent on present his jelling administration as far preferable to a perfectly elected one, and without all the moaning. Trial? What trial? There is still no cable TV on Bush's ranch. There were on Saturday, however, lots of politicians in barn jackets...
...MSNBC reporter, Kelly Smith, reported as follows on Thursday from Crawford, Texas: "Governor George W. Bush made an appearance before reporters at his ranch today, trying to look presidential." The comics (Leno, Letterman, Comedy Central) have swarmed all over Gore and Bush, pointing and woofing at the forest of American flags arrayed behind non-presidents and non-vice presidents as they've appeared on television to wheedle and spin. The flag (reverenced as a sacred object during annual flag-burning-bill debates) turns into a cheesy stage prop for the drooling suitors...
Castano's revenge has been brutal. In 1990 the military and police raided a Castano family ranch and dug up 24 decomposed corpses, some showing signs of torture. Fear of AUC vengeance is one reason at least 1 million peasants fled their homes during the past decade. "This is an irregular war, and the enemy is a military target, whether in uniform or in civilian clothes," says Castano. "When this is over, let them judge me before an international tribunal--but I want the guerrilla leaders and the Colombian army there beside me in the dock." He insists that...