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DIED. Anne Rogers Clark, 77, storied dog-show judge known as the Big Lady; in Wilmington, Del. A fixture at every Westminster Dog Show since 1941, she was the first female handler to win Best in Show and was the only judge to have evaluated all the American Kennel Club's 165 breeds. The 6-ft. 2-in. Clark, who learned the business at her mother's dog-grooming shop (she rejected a veterinarian scholarship), confessed to a special fondness for poodles, which she called "Labradors with a college education...
...Simon, one of the two boys from a charity home, works as a baggage handler near Heathrow Airport. He has wed twice. The first marriage, to Yvonne, produced five children; in the second, to Vianessa, he become a foster parent. Simon's and Paul's histories suggest that they weren't schooled in ambition. "I'm very laid back," he tells Apted. "As [my wife] always says, if I go any further back I'll fall over." Paul, the second charity case, went to Australia and worked as a laborer. He married Susan, a hairdresser, and had two kids...
...describes his final Game experience in similar, if not so colorful language. He and a roommate achieved relative fame last year when they snuck onto the field and kidnapped Yale’s bulldog mascot, Handsome Dan XVI.“Um, yeah,” they told the handler, “we’re going to need the dog for a special halftime finale.”They led the mascot in on-field circles by his hula-hoop leash before breaking for the Harvard student section, where they were received like royalty. A fan photo...
...senior counter-terrorism official ridicules the notion that the men pose a real threat. "Any time we have evidence of anything like this, suspects are brought in, interrogated, and held if justified during investigations," he says. Abdelhazak Rabehi, a 30 year-old baggage handler whose job depended on the badge of which he was stripped, aired similar logic. "If I'd been a threat to the airport, I'd be a threat to society: they'd have put me in handcuffs instead of taking away...
Some urban dwellers are taking matters into their own hands. In parts of Delhi, companies are now employing imposing langur monkeys to protect buildings and scare off the smaller rhesus monkeys. "Any langur will do the business," says Zahid Khan, 20, a langur handler who regularly chains one or two outside the Press Trust of India building, which houses TIME's Delhi bureau. "The monkeys are petrified of them...