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...Its owners recently completed a several-year restoration that honours the genteel spirit of the original interiors with mod-con add-ons, both necessary and indulgent, including a saltwater swimming pool...
...The mural — a composition of topography and pioneers titled “The Trackers” — is part of Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal, an attempt to enrich the population’s wealth and spirit through a programme of reforms...
...“I’ve seen lightning destroy a house just like this,” she says in Uruguayan-accented English, waving her hands....
...Just down the road, Stanford graduate Eve Jobs has her $15m ranch....
...I’d been expecting an ancient hacienda, but we round the corner to a modern arsenic-green villa with swirling pillars like icing on a wedding cake....
...This turns out to be Fernando Urive, the ranch-hand whom the siblings have known as long as they’ve been cognisant. He has gone to get our horses....
...hands....
...sq km ranch....
...We employed a curve in which the average grade was a B+, and only a tiny number of students received grades below a C. I told the class this, but it had no effect on the students’ mood....
...Anyhow, to the extent that the committee is full of lawyers and they decided against (b) in the case of TCEH, they’d probably not like themselves for going against the spirit of a prior decision — not that...
...a female friend; a holiday that must, at some level, have been inspired by the spirit of Thelma & Louise; but I’d only gone and arranged it with someone actually called Louise....
...Most were novice riders but they certainly weren’t wimps. So it was that seven women rode into camp giggling with the euphoria that comes with a challenge conquered....
...Details Rough Riders Hotel, rooms from $169 (£117) a night, www.medora.com/rough-riders Buffalo Gap Guest Ranch, www.buffalogapguestranch.com Theodore Roosevelt National Park, www.nps.gov...
...flown in from his Colorado ranch....
...“I came across black liberation theology, which I’d never heard of before,” she said. “It really freaked me out....
...I’d love to be able to come back in 2100 and see what this will look like. This change is monumental.”...
...to point B....
...We’d set off from Brooklyn for a new destination each year, somewhere between Maine and Virginia....
...The Thesp gave a running commentary on the cast, their technique and who he’d worked with....
...Invited to a ranch on the Eel River, which was not exactly on the way, we accepted. The devil is in the detours....
...Thus the Dalai Lama keeps his hand extended while Chinese officials have, as recently as March, called him “an evil spirit with a human face and the heart of a beast”....
...The 1950s ranch-style property in the township that he and his former wife bought in 1994 for $200,000 is now worth about $500,000....
...In April 2002, the prime minister used a speech during his visit to the president’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, to distil his thoughts on intervention....
...Mr Bush and the crown prince, who last met in 2002 at the ranch, had developed a “very strong personal relationship”, Mr Hadley said, with “a very good spirit in the room”....
...Brokeback Mountain chronicles the love affair between two cowboys (ranch hand Heath Ledger, rodeo rider Jake Gyllenhaal) in an America moving through three decades in the 20th century’s second half....
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