Hurricane Bill was nothing to Tsunami Julia. Julia washed over America this summer like a perfect media storm, the kind usually caused by a Sci-Fi Blockbuster. How soon will we have little action dolls in aprons and cleavers, or interactive TV games for kiddies played out with skillets and ice...

For over a century now, in the coupling of show biz with politics, the American imagination has been fixed on the macho image of our Chief of State as Chief Cowboy. Even before he was President, Teddy Roosevelt in 1883 played cowboy at his ranch in South Dakota because William...

John Ford couldn't have staged it better. There was Cowboy George disappearing into the sunset, draggling a few twigs of Crawford brush behind him, while Old Man McCain, patriarch of Sedona Ranch -- or one of those dang houses, never could remember which -- was waving him off with relief....