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...registering for at Bed Bath & Beyond. But an 8-week-old basset hound--all ears and belly and panda paws--is way cuter than a vacuum cleaner. We set his quivering body down on the city sidewalk, and he promptly sucked down a chicken bone. We named him Hoover...
...Hoover was a difficult dog. Bassets are genetically narcoleptic, but ours made a case for canine Ritalin. He careered around the apartment possessed by a long-eared, drooling demon. He practiced situational bladder control on our cherry-wood parquet floors. He grew into 60 lbs. of torso with 3-in. stubs for legs, yet he could do a dead leap off the kitchen floor to swipe a pizza off the counter. Plus he bayed--a siren of woo-woos that endeared us to our condominium neighbors. But after every misdeed, he would turn his googly-eyed gaze...
...Mandalay Beach at Mandalay Bay is offering a full-scale wedding package for $1077.07. The Ritz Carlton in Lake Las Vegas has its "Seven Ways of Wonderment" package that includes a deluxe room, seven hours of spa treatments for two, a seven-course meal and a tour of Hoover Dam, one of the Seven Wonders...
...Jewish as antiblack. The Klan's power peaked at the Democratic Convention of 1924, when pro-Klan forces battled for almost 100 ballots to keep New York's Catholic Governor Al Smith off the ticket. Smith managed to get nominated in 1928, only to be buried by Republican Herbert Hoover...
...electoral-commission headquarters, the ruling party won what some observers thought was the most fraudulent election ever in Nigeria--which is saying something. Once again, Nigeria is catching a wave. From Bangladesh to Thailand to Russia, political freedom is in retreat. In a book due out this fall, Hoover Institution political scientist Larry Diamond notes that "we have entered a period of global democratic recession...