NYT: Bush and the Protester: Tale of 2 Summer Camps

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By ELISABETH BUMILLER

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On Saturday, the two worlds could not have been farther apart. While Mr. Bush was cycling with his friend Mr. Armstrong under a brutal Texas sun, hundreds of Ms. Sheehan's supporters gathered a short bike ride away under their gargantuan white party tent to show solidarity with the mother who has demanded to see the president in her summer protest outside his ranch.

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In fact, the well-financed organizers said the same tent had been used the previous week for a fund-raiser at a neighboring ranch, the Broken Spoke, for Mr. Bush and his biggest contributors. "It never came off the truck," said John Wolf, the owner of a stage and scenery company in Dallas who is also a co-founder of the Crawford Peace House, a gathering spot for antiwar protesters in town.

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With $10 to $15 donations pouring in to Ms. Sheehan's Web site (organizers said at one point they were collecting $25,000 a day) the group was able to afford the tent, vans to shuttle people from Crawford, and the services of Ann Spicer, a friend of Mr. Wolf and the owner of an event-planning company in Dallas who was overseeing a makeshift kitchen, complete with two Viking stoves. Ms. Spicer turned out three meals a day for a potential 1,000 guests.

Manicotti and King Ranch chicken casserole were on the menu for dinner on Saturday night; supporters who wanted to stay the night pitched small tents in the shade around the big tent's perimeter. Last night, the folk singer Joan Baez performed a concert.

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http://nytimes.com/2005/08/22/politics/22letter.html

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1. Nice article

but not breaking news. In way of explanation - this is " other articles"

( I'll reccommend though! )