Word: dog
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...flustered by the flood that overwhelms his In boxes. "My desk, my chairs, my floors are cluttered," says Baltimore, who at 67 still plays a big role in biomedical research. He copes like the rest of us: "You have a hierarchy of what's important, like your family, your dog, your friends, your students." As for lesser matters? "Those you let sit in the pile and see if they go away...
...Marie Cox knows how to make a stir. She became the talk of the town in Washington, D.C., as the blogger Wonkette, covering politics with a racy edge. Now, her new book, Dog Days, a roman ? clef about a 28-year-staffer on the 2004 campaign of Democratic candidate John Hillman (get it?) who is having an affair with a married political journalist, Cox making waves in the same mainstream media that she saucily disses. This week, she sold her second book to Riverhead with typical Wonkette fanfare. We caught up with Ana Marie by phone on a train...
...typically wakes up in his 1930s brick colonial in Wellesley between 5:30 and 6:00 a.m. to take his border terrier Tobin for a walk. Tobin, who is named after Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, is the brown-furred successor to Keynes, Mankiw’s last dog. The real-life Tobin was a follower of economist John Maynard Keynes, as well...
...Humala, however, still has a long road to the presidency. First he would have to win first or second place in the April 9 vote; and then win a runoff on May 7. In the meantime, his personal and family history may dog him. He led a mini-uprising against Peru's now exiled president Alberto Fujimori in 2000, just before his government collapsed. Humala's younger brother is now in prison awaiting trial for leading his own uprising a year ago in a tiny Andean backwater town. And Humala's eldest brother, Ulises, has officially filed...
...gent who dreamed up Creature Comforts and the feature hit Chicken Run. But Park's signal contribution to stop-motion animation, as well as to an appreciation of the placid lunacies of the English middle class, is this trifecta of shorts about Wallace the inventor and his infinitely superior dog Gromit. The second film, The Wrong Trousers, is one of the great screen comedies and a tribute to man's dependence on animals...