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Sometimes in politics, you have to listen for the dog that doesn't bark...
...this week, it sounds to me like there's a big, shaggy dog not barking over the President's controversial terrorist surveillance program...
There, Hay’s listing joins such recent auctions as an “alien implant from my arm,” a french fry in the shape of a dog, and a bottle claimed to contain Elvis’ fart...
...They were laughing at him. A man of traditional views and settled habits, he is comically out of step with the new age. His children would rather watch television than heed his commands on deportment, and even the dog no longer takes him seriously. His wife, fed up with his aloof dignity, has a one-night fling with an American soldier. Determined to regain her affection, Shunsuke goes heavily into debt to build a modern, American-style house. That pile becomes a metaphor for the marriage and much else. The roof leaks. Plants die on the sunbaked veranda. And when...
...Marie Cox is the author of the Washington novel Dog Days...