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Dogs are handsome, winsome, loyal, a pushover for a back pat. They score in the top three percentile for companionship, slightly above humans. But dogs aren't funny; saucy repartee is not a canine forte. They are unlikely to perform a song-and-dance number that mentions all 50 states alphabetically. And rarely are they blue. The premise of Teacher's Pet, the new traditional-animation comedy film from Disney, is that Spot--a precocious, singing, very blue mutt--wants to be a real live boy. But he's too chatty to be a doggie, and almost too faaaabulous...
Junior intercollegiate No. 22 Asher Hochberg came up with the other win for the Crimson (3-1, 3-0 Ivy), defeating No. 23 Pat Malloy—the only American in the Bantam lineup—in five games at No. 7 in what may prove to be a breakout victory...
...Dole was from nearby Kansas, so the race was for second. When Pat Robertson mobilized an army of Christian conservatives to give him a six-point win over George Bush Sr., the Vice President was badly gored...
...knows where it is going. "This happens in a global economy," says Sigalla, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, with a sigh. In the meantime, tell your kids to keep those McDonald's wrappers out of sight at the border. --With reporting by Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Pat Dawson/Billings, Jim Frederick/Tokyo, Rita Healy/Denver and Noah Isackson/Chicago
Watching Dean on the stump these past few weeks, I tried to remember the last Democratic politician who was so joyously vituperative. (Pat Buchanan was the last Republican.) Suddenly, as Dean ranted one evening about "Washington bureaucrats like George W. Bush and Tom DeLay who want to dictate to your local school boards," I realized that he reminded me of George Wallace--a liberal version, to be sure, and without the theatrical racism. But Wallace was about a lot more than racism. He was about the inanities of Washington, the "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight...