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...Vet" (syndicated, 2/7/92) The clear winner in this month's advice column war, Dr. John De Jong answers an inquiry by one "N.H." "I have an embarrassing problem with my dog: When she sees an [sic] Hispanic or black person she goes into a frenzy. Why is that? I never taught her that and never trained her to be an attack dog. . . . I can't understand it. I myself am not a racist and I'm also a person of minority." A few paragraphs later, N.H. asks bluntly, "Is my dog racist?" De Jong ensures N.H. that "your...
Flash's problem seemed to be self-inflicted -- a bleeding stomach wound caused by his habit of chewing up and swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images...
Oliver Stone screams bloody murder for a living. In his screenplays for Midnight Express and Scarface, he drew nightscapes of drug paranoia and police brutality. As writer-director of Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July, the Vietnam vet exorcised his demons by portraying the war as a rite of passage -- to fratricide. In Talk Radio he suggested that the penalty for a showman's reckless truth telling was to be killed by his audience. Jim Morrison, in The Doors, pays a similar fee for fame; the poet's capricious muse drives him to drugs, madness, death. Oddly enough...
...first the incident appeared to be just another case of mindless violence. But last week the police charged Riggs' wife Toni, 22, and her brother Michael Cato, 19, with murdering the Desert Storm vet. Reportedly, the motive was to obtain the payoff from Riggs' life-insurance policies. "I'm not shocked," said Anthony's mother Lessie Riggs. "It's something I suspected from the first. I always knew ((Toni)) was selfish. She wanted money without having to work...
...welcomers was Carlos Melendrez, a Vietnam vet who noted the contrast between the welcome today and the one he got when he returned from his war: "The first thing I did at the airport was rush to the men's room and get rid of my uniform. I was ashamed. The guys and girls today can be proud to wear...