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...nearly 200 years since well-to-do Sydney colonists thought it fashionable to keep young dingoes as pets, but children today still delight in the fat-bellied, golden pups that Lyn Watson takes into shopping centers and schools for show-and-tell visits. The Victorian-based dingo breeder and international dog judge is waging a publicity battle to convince Australians that the dingo is worth saving - a fight that's been going on, in one way or another, ever since sheep arrived with the First Fleet and the dingo became an outlaw. Since then, the animal that figures in Aboriginal...
...possibilities of these kinds of kids?" asks Patricia Bauer, a former editor at the Washington Post. Her daughter Margaret, 21, has Down, and is, according to her mother, an avid reader, Red Sox fan and downloader of Internet recipes as well as a "source of joy and delight to her family." Says Bauer, who makes a point of saying she is not a churchgoer: "Most of the people who make these decisions don't know an individual who has Down syndrome. They don't know about the advances in recent years...
Most often, Clubbers took great delight in glorifying and protecting their secrecy. After Phillips learned that she was “in,” she encountered her roommate Louise, who did not know about The Club. To protect the secrecy, she lied about where she had just been...
...comedy conventions. This is not to suggest that “Squid” isn’t a tremendously funny film. But its humor is rooted in the intractable narcissism and brutal selfishness of its protagonists. One laughs during “Squid” not out of delight, but in recognition of human stupidity at its apogee. The worst offender in this respect is household head Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels): he is a novelist whose literary reputation is diminishing in inverse proportion to his sense of entitlement and self-worth. For example, when asked by his teenaged...
...political science at Boston College. He went on to earn a law degree from Boston College Law School.Sullivan served as Assistant District Attorney for Middlesex County and as Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts before his election to the City Council in 1993.TARGETING SCHOOLSPointing with obvious delight to the colorful student artwork that covers the walls of his office in City Hall, Sullivan calls education his top issue. One of the mayor’s major roles is to serve as chair of the School Committee.Sullivan says that education is both the area he is most proud...