Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their glory days, they patrolled Philadelphia's mean streets, searched buildings and sniffed for bombs and narcotics. When they retired, the hounds of the Philadelphia police department's canine unit traditionally got pensions in the form of free dog food and veterinary care. But on March 1, Police Commissioner Willie Williams eliminated the benefits of 45 wet-nosed retirees to shave $13,500 from the department's $262 million budget. "When you are looking at cutting services to the homeless," said police spokesman Captain Richard De Lise, "how can you justify feeding dogs...
...hockey matches and basketball games. Off-duty soldiers, their pink faces fuzzy with adolescent stubble, scuffle to get closer to the stage, while packs of young girls giggle at their antics. It might be a concert anywhere in America -- except that no T shirts are for sale, no hot dog vendors trawl the aisles, and, most of all, no one smokes anything stronger than cigarettes...
Kelly's friends know him for his French-fries frenzies and chili-dog cravings. But beware of stereotypes. A Redskins cap planted on his head, the designer can also be found at his favorite restaurant, L'Ambroisie, over a $150 lunch of scallops and Sauterne, waxing eloquent on the merits of white vs. black truffles. Anyone who refers to Kelly's origins as "poor black" is quickly set straight with a portrait of working-class warmth. "They expect that you come off some family that picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white...
...drip out, and its most graphic charge was that the leading hitter in baseball history may have exchanged signals with his bookie from the dugout. Rose denies betting on baseball games or indulging in any other illegal form of gambling, though he admits he is a habitue of dog and horse tracks...
...down to this: we didn't come home from Princeton with enough Tiger pelt, so we'll have to settle for some Bulldog hide. It's going to be a dogfight out there, and I'd like to look at it as if it were the master teaching his dog. And, of course, we all know who's going to be learning the tricks. In a nutshell, we're so psyched. We're foaming at the mouth...