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Twelve hours earlier, Pa, a.k.a. Ch. Parsifal Di Casa Netzer, a five-year-old standard schnauzer, had been judged best-in-show at the 121st Westminster Kennel Club show, the second oldest sporting event in North America. (The Kentucky Derby is older by one year.) For two days every year, Madison Square Garden becomes the friendliest place in the world. Last week some 2,500 dogs, representing 156 breeds, descended upon the Garden, each hoping to work its way through the canine justice system: best of breed, best of group, best-in-show. Pa was one of the favorites, having...
...telling us--Madonna went on an artistic and spiritual quest. She campaigned intensely for the role, taking just a measly--by movie-star standards--$1 million fee and even forgoing a percentage of the profits. She personally lobbied the President of Argentina for the right to film at the Casa Rosada, the Perons' official residence. She felt an almost mystical identification with Evita, another ambitious woman who was both revered and reviled during her lifetime and wore neat clothes...
...stands on the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, the night humid with portent, the masses chanting her name, as she sings her calculated confession. "And as for fortune, and as for fame,/ I never invited them in,/ Though they seemed to the world they were all I desired...
Debra Robbin, a domestic violence advocate and director of education and training at Casa Myrna Vasquez, a shelter for battered women and children, also spoke favorably of the crime bill...
...mother of two who has served as a foster parent to 109 children over 23 years, Wallace is a court-appointed special advocate, or CASA. Nationwide, 37,000 CASAs are the "voice in court" for abused or neglected children, helping overburdened social workers by interviewing doctors, teachers and the children themselves and then recommending the best course of action to a judge. Says Wallace: "We as adults are good at saying, 'What a shame,' and then looking away...