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...called on Howard Dean to resign as Democratic chairman, saying the party could have won more House seats if he had spent its money more wisely. Liberal bloggers were slamming Emanuel, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, saying he was taking credit for their victories. And the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of the most conservative House Democrats, was mounting a rear-guard campaign to save Harman's post at the Intelligence Committee. Savoring a team victory, it seems, is something the party has yet to get the hang...
...esqe sappy subject matter, but here it gets a treatment that silences all but its most blaring notes.The play begins eight months after Becca (Donna Bullock) and her husband, Howie (Jordan Lage) lose their four-year-old son, who is hit by a car after chasing his dog into the street. In one illustrative struggle, the couple gets into a scalding dispute over the dog, who has been sent to live with Becca’s mother, Nat (Maureen Anderman).The dog is getting fat, Howie says, but Becca refuses to have it in the house. Howie clings...
...enforcement campaign against illegal dog ownership, which began November 13, has caused a storm of complaint and protest everywhere from Beijing's streets to the electronic bulletin boards and blogs of China's hyper-active cyber universe. And the issue has created some unlikely rebels: Xiaomei, for example, is the very model of a law-abiding Chinese and wouldn't dream of doing anything that might get her into trouble. But she nevertheless joined hundreds of protesters who showed up at the entrance to Beijing Zoo on November 12 to protest the crackdown. She says that riot police outnumbered...
...Still, the presence of Xiaomei and hundreds of fellow dog lovers was a sign of changing times in China. Once the reviled symbol of bourgeois indulgence during China's Cultural Revolution and largely wiped out, pet dogs - there are an estimated million or more in Beijing - now provide comfort and status to a rapidly swelling middle class. So, the canine crackdown has provoked a struggle that pits the power of Beijing's newly rich against the reflexive authoritarianism of the ruling Communist Party. Just how the contest plays out will provide telling insight into how Chinese society is adapting...
...thing is clear: Despite appeals for calm and cooperation by the police, dog owners aren't planning on backing down. "The new regulation should be revised," asserts Wu Tianyu, founder of Animal Rescue Beijing. "The key point is to manage people, not to manage dogs. Dogs themselves are not dangerous." Wu says emotions on the issue are running high. "I hope there won't be any violence. If the regulation is not revised, there could be a chaos...