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...Dog (attentive, loyal, stubborn, guarded...
...late February. According to legend, the calendar was created by Ta Nao, a minister of Emperor Huang Ti's, and has been used in Asia since 4000 B.C. It is based on 12 temperaments represented by 12 symbolic animals - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig (the dragon being the well-known favorite). After 12 years, the cycle restarts, matching the length of Jupiter's solar orbit. (Read "China Not So Bullish About the Year...
...streets.“I’ve gone through a year of speed when I was a kid, drank really heavily for quite a while,” O’Brien said, “but I finally quit all the craziness because I got a dog.”But he added that he was uncomfortable in the confines of a regular job and preferred self-employment.“I’m psychologically incapable of working for anybody else anymore,” O’Brien said. “I have a tendency...
...Gibbs had to endure a few other sticky moments during his inaugural briefing with a White House press corps that seemed determined to shake the lap dog reputation reporters covering Obama during the campaign had acquired. He fended off repeated questions about the second swearing-in of the President, which had only been open to a few journalists and no photographers or video or audio equipment. And he did his best to defend the new Administration against charges of violating its own tough new ethics guidelines by appointing two former lobbyists as high-ranking agency deputies, one at the Pentagon...
...member of the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 49 members of Congress who espouse fiscal conservatism with a mission of "appealing to the mainstream values of the American public...