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...They'll get honorary convention titles but not prime-time slots, a fact that insiders say has Lott steamed. "If your name begins with Senator or Congressman, you're not onstage," says a Bush adviser. Exception: JOHN McCAIN, whose Senate status is overshadowed by his celebrity. Besides, he'd bark if cut out. Not so lucky is former President GEORGE BUSH, who will, like all living G.O.P. ex-Presidents, be seen (in a video tribute) but not heard, lest he overshadow his son and remind voters of the past. BARBARA BUSH is another matter. Some advisers want the former First...
...awards and recognition his work has received, but is not overly impressed with himself: "People used to kid me when I was a boy, and they would say, 'Ah, yes, you're going to have a Nobel Prize one day. You'll also be covered like a tree with bark.'" He refuses to romanticize his work: "I'm not a tortured writer. I had my days in my youth when I was a tortured writer. I decided that if torture is part of the job, I was going to quit...
Dogs don't have to bark a motto at Michigan's DOG SCOUTS OF AMERICA, but they can earn merit badges in backpacking and tracking. Dogs and their people work hard from morning to night, but they can also pursue less serious interests like painting lessons for the bow-wow set, games of musical chairs and an all-pooch band. Seminars teach emergency first aid and the use of herbal medicine for dogs...
...suit to void the local law that prevents shows by artists from Castro's Cuba. In the past, De Leon might have received instant death threats from militant anti-Castro groups, but they are caught in an Elian quagmire of their own making and are proving to have more bark than bite. "I think the intimidation cycle has been broken in this town," says Elena Freyre, a Cuban exile and Miami director of the moderate Cuban Committee for Democracy. "Elian may mean the defeat of the traditional exile line...
...have it back at the end of the year," my teacher would bark as she stashed bracelet after bracelet away in the depths of her desk...