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Governor Bush's brother George W. faced serious credibility issues when it was disclosed that the animal he had described as his and wife Laura's new cat is actually a dog. Insiders claim that the President's mislabeling of his pet was the handiwork of White House political guru Karl Rove. With America's population of cat owners far exceeding that of dog owners, Rove is said to have advocated the nomenclatural switch as a slam-dunk means of expanding Bush's national support base in an election year. The President's insistence on patting his golden retriever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Label Us Skeptical | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...Farm Stay UK, a nonprofit body that publishes a directory of farms that take guests. Dairyland Farm World, a farm-turned-theme-park in southwestern England, has gone down the diversification route. For an entry fee of $40 per family, Dairyland offers a milking parlor and a "pat-a-pet" area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Living Off The Land | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

According to Zunz, it doubled around the hotel this week. There were even security officers roaming through the hotel’s famous breakfast restaurant, Henrietta’s Table, which was named after Friedman’s pet...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clintons Stay at Charles Hotel—But Together or Not? | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...preparation, Braff had Portman watch one of his favorite films, Harold and Maude. Like that movie, Garden State quickly establishes an off-kilter tone, using odd pacing and such surrealistic touches as the giant pet cemetery in Portman's character's backyard to create a marijuana-like haze between the main character and his surroundings. "I love stuff that's totally realistic, then dips across the line," he says. "Sometimes I crossed the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Zach Braff Has A Big Laugh | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

Rena Xu ’07, a biochemistry concentrator in Eliot House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. She was grateful for the opportunity to confirm firsthand that the president’s pet is not, in fact, an exuberant purple dinosaur...

Author: By Rena Xu, | Title: No Scholar Left Behind | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

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