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Should this turn out to be the new First Dog, the weight of history will fall on his haunches. Things have changed since the days when George Washington could name his hounds Drunkard, Tipler and Tipsy. Warren Harding's Airedale Laddie Boy had a valet and occupied a hand-carved chair at Cabinet meetings. Ulysses S. Grant told his White House staff that if anything happened to his son's beloved Newfoundland, they'd all be fired. Teddy Roosevelt had, along with a badger, a toad, some snakes and a pig, a bull terrier named Pete who once ripped...
...will never attend a caucus in Iowa again. First of all, I couldn't valet my car at the Westridge Elementary School in West Des Moines. Second, there was not a Jean Philippe Patisserie inside the school selling fresh, soft, Nutella-stuffed brioches. Third, not one of the people I met at the school was a cocktail waitress - or even dressed like a cocktail waitress...
...HFPA gets a lot of giggles from "real" critics, who say that the group's membership consists of part-time journalists, full-time cater-waiters and valet parkers. But don't laugh at these representatives of overseas newspapers and magazines. They know how to throw a party. Double the number of nomination slots for movies, from the Motion Picture Academy's quintet to 10 - five dramas and five comedies or musicals. (Indeed, so rich was this year's bounty of films that the voters couldn't even contain their finalists to a list of five; they made room for seven...
...Valet parking for bikes may seem like just another absurd Californian self-indulgence, but Bikestation advocates say the creature comforts help them promote cycling as an attractive alternative to driving. "In order to elevate the status of biking, we have to accomplish a cultural shift," says Andrea White, executive director of Bikestation, the non-profit group that helps cities set up the sites. "Facilities that are aesthetically pleasing with conveniences make people feel that they're part of something cool...
...valet attendant Dougherty, the facilities are harbingers of the future. "When all the gasoline runs out, the Priuses are going to be dead on the side of the road right beside the Hummers," he says. "But you'll still be able to get around on a bike...