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...Bell concurs, more or less. "Befriending Simon Geller," he says, "is like befriending an extremely tough, seemingly tired, apparently less than healthy watchdog. Some days he'd let you pet him, and some days he'd bite. And he is so very tenacious...
Other Presidents have had their Falas and King Timahoes. But since well before their 688-acre ranch became the Western White House, the pet-loving Reagans have been opening their gates and arms to just about anything that barks, meows, whinnies or quacks. The most recent additions to the First Couple's ranch menagerie are three kittens that Caretakers Courtney Trisler and Barney Barnett found wandering outside a Santa Barbara, Calif., supermarket last month. Confident that the Reagans would be happy to shelter the unfortunate felines, Trisler and Barnett toted them up the mountain. Nancy welcomed the cats and, after...
...believe that really happened, you, like thousands of other gullible Americans, have been taken in by one more of the hundreds of urban legends that regularly make their spoken way across the country. "The Mexican Pet" is nevertheless, the authentic title story of Jan Harold Brunvand's third collection of whoppers. Together, these new wives' tales merge as an American picaresque, a compilation of myths that keep the telephone wires humming and cocktail parties doubly fueled...
...friend of a friend of mine"), an ironic twist worthy of O. Henry and a lack of factual foundation combined with a seductive plausibility. The hardiest perennials include "The Choking Doberman," a gruesome tale synthesized from two old legends: "The Witch and the Telltale Wound" and "The Misunderstood Pet." In the modern version, a woman returns home to find her Doberman choking. After two severed fingers are discovered in the dog's throat, the police are summoned. In a closet they find a cowering burglar trying to stanch the flow of blood from his mutilated hand...
...conferees repeatedly got hung up, mostly on what Rostenkowski / defined simply as the question of "who benefits and who pays." Many of the legislators had pet industries whose breaks they fought bitterly to protect. One example: Gephardt, of all people, supported Republican Senator John Danforth in arguing for continued special treatment of the profits of defense contractors (some of the biggest are based in their home state, Missouri...