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...stand up to authority when their interests are threatened. Last October police in Beijing attempted to enforce rules limiting each household to a single, registered animal no taller than 14 in. (35 cm). The drive sparked a rare public demonstration by hundreds of well-heeled Chinese, mostly young dog owners. Within a month, according to Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, President Hu Jintao had intervened, ordering the Beijing authorities to back off. It was the first time most Beijingers could remember a public protest drawing a direct intervention by China's top leader...
...will tap his buddy and say, "Hey, is that ref pulling a Donaghy?" But that's if fans even remember his name. The Donaghy scandal could grow; or, just as likely, it could sink into the oblivion of a slow summer news week - with baseball hitting its dog days and even the British Open golf tournament missing the drama of its stellar attraction, Tiger Woods, in serious contention. So Commissioner Stern may have a right to feel confident. Sports fans have short memories...
...unity under attack by immigration enforcement. They have drawn considerable press, but they also seem a bit packaged: focusing on eight undocumented immigrants out of 12 million allows for intense cherry-picking and hardly suggests a mass movement. An anti-immigration blogger derided NSM as a "bed-and-breakfast dog-and-pony show...
...onto a barge in front of the museum and borne to the port of Tronchetto, from where they were trucked to Frankfurt to join a cargo flight with about 50 crates from Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Watching every inch of the way to Melbourne was Rosin-"kind of like a dog," he says. When his prizes were delivered at the NGV, Rosin allowed the crates to acclimatize for 24 hours before completing his color-coded condition reports. Only then could installation begin. "You go to an exhibition and see all the paintings on the wall," he says...
Where lessons are learned that reverberate beyond the midway: Too much of a good thing can be bad. Games of chance are rigged against you. Don't blow all your money on the first fun you see. And while it's one thing to win a giant stuffed dog, it's quite another thing to have to carry it around all night...