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...owner of an SUV, I feel duty-bound to speak up for my poor vehicle--and for myself, since I feel beaten up too. Nothing takes the pleasure out of driving like the suspicion that at every four-way stop, someone in a fuel-efficient compact is sneering at my moral deficiencies. I might as well be wearing a scarlet letter (three of them, actually). I want to scream, "But I live on a dirt road! I have a farm! See all the mud on my fenders! I need this...
Robert Penn Warren wrote those words about a Cadillac, in a novel set in the 1930s. Back then Caddies were what you drove to announce that you had power, which is why people desired them even as they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs...
...that elite group of non-rappers who can say "bitch" a lot, chose Mick, as he's known for short, over 2,602 other contestants, including a bichon frise named Paray's I Told You So and a Newfoundland named Darbydale's All Rise Pouchcove. Neither Mick nor his owner, Marilu Hansen, will get any prize money, but Mick will get to breed with lots of good-looking dogs. And isn't that its own reward...
...DIED. JOHNNY LONGDEN, 96, Hall of Fame jockey who rode 6,032 winners over four decades; in Banning, Calif. He rode Count Fleet, a somewhat wild horse that Longden persuaded the owner not to sell, to a celebrated Triple Crown sweep in 1943, and won more races than any other jockey until Bill Shoemaker broke his record...
...just three years as CEO of British publisher IPC Media, Bailey, 40, closed six flagging magazines and revamped others. AOL Time Warner (TIME's owner) bought the recharged IPC in 2001 for $1.6 billion. In February, Bailey becomes CEO of Trinity Mirror, the $1.6 billion newspaper chain, just in time to face a price war between Trinity's Daily Mirror and its rival...