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...Even after his retirement in 1948, Bradman had to endure the corollary of greatness, in his case a fame so massive it was given its own name: Bradmania. It was the bane of his life and, with the stress it brought, the cause of much of his ill health. For a tired, introspective old man, reclusion was a sanity-saving last resort. It was also his final stroke of genius. There's enough sound and fury in the world, enough fading stars who won't leave us to our memories, so eventually spoiling them. Bradman remained Bradman...
...killed a San Francisco woman [NATION, Feb. 12]: unfortunately, as in most cases of dog attacks, the last thing anyone worries about is the animal. Training a dog to be aggressive or to be an attack dog is a form of abuse. The dogs involved in the fatal mauling, Bane and Hera, learned that they would be rewarded if they were aggressive. People don't realize that how you raise a dog is just as important as how you rear a child. If you abuse an animal or teach it to be aggressive, you should expect to have an animal...
...allow them, most dotcoms will, and pet shelters won't kill them if they're at all adoptable. But that Friday Diane Whipple, 33, a lacrosse coach, stepped out of the elevator in her tony Pacific Heights apartment building with her shopping bags. She was set upon by Bane and Hera, 123-lb. and 112-lb. Presa Canarios belonging to the two attorneys down the hall. By the time the police arrived and rushed her to the hospital, she was mortally wounded. Officers who saw the grisly scene needed trauma counseling...
...Bane was put down shortly thereafter (Hera is still awaiting her fate), but it was the dogs' owners, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who attracted most of the attention. It was later revealed that they had a close relationship with Paul ("Cornfed") Schneider, an Aryan supremacist, accomplished knife fighter and crayon artist serving a life term in California's maximum-security Pelican Bay prison. According to prison authorities, Schneider--who covers his cell with pictures of furry animals--has been directing the raising of attack dogs from behind bars. Noel and Knoller got their pets from one of Schneider...
...1930s, nearly causing its extinction. Were the two dogs trained to kill? And if so, did the couple know what they were capable of? Noel and Knoller denied any culpability in an unusual, 18-page letter faxed to local district attorney Terence Hallinan. In it Noel described Bane--whose name literally means "death"--as "a really gentle animal" and Hera as "a neighborhood favorite." He claimed that Knoller tried to hold the dogs back during the attack, but Whipple refused to get into her apartment and even punched Knoller in the eye. Knoller sustained injuries from the dogs...