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Long fences now divide ranches that once ran over unbroken plains. Trailers haul horses from one job to another; those long treks in the saddle, sometimes upwards of 1,200 miles, are a thing of the past. Beef prices have plummeted. Notes Knox: "You sell a cow for $300; you got $600 in her. It's hard to make a living that way." With salaries ranging between $500 and $800 a month, cowboys don't get rich either, a fact that recently prompted Knox to move from solely punching cows to shoeing horses and doing daywork...
...State Colin Powell, Former Vice President Al Gore ’69, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan—this is only a sampling of recent speakers at Harvard’s Afternoon Exercises during Commencement. Owing to this nearly unbroken string of top politicians and economists invited to speak at Harvard’s annual graduation ceremony, the recent announcement of actor John A. Lithgow ’67 as this year’s speaker has caught some by surprise...
...unbroken often leads nowhere. Singin' in the Rain was not really improved by being turned into a splashy Broadway musical. Casablanca will not be improved if it is remade with John Travolta as Rick and Brooke Shields as Ilsa, with Prince singing As Time Goes By. Come to think of it, would baseball be improved if we speeded it up for today's busy audiences by ending the game after six innings? Do we really need a new national anthem, with a tune that can be sung and words that can be remembered...
...Circle Unbroken...
...deportation to America, the Civil War, the coming of the 20th century and the social dislocations of World War II--all the while struggling to preserve their native traditions. Today sweet-grass baskets are sewn mostly for the tourist trade, but that hardly matters to the grandmother- narrator. The unbroken circle of the title is not only the structure of the baskets but also the continuity of a proud people and their culture--in the words of the grandmother, "the knot that ties us all together...