Word: warrens
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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...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt with Fala 2. Lyndon Johnson with his beagle 3. Warren Harding with Laddie Boy 4. Richard Nixon with Checkers
...SHINY BOTTLES For 20 years, lighting sculptor Warren Muller has been collecting all manner of scrap at flea markets, auctions and junkyards, and transforming that ordinary stuff into illuminated art. "I favor old tools, farm equipment and industrial parts," he says. Here, a salvaged crate is combined with unearthed Moxie soda bottles to make a light that throws a rustic glow ($3,600-$250,000). www.bahdeebahdu.com
WILLIE JESSOP, spokesman for the FLDS church, after the state indicted six members of the polygamist sect--including leader Warren Jeffs--on charges related to child abuse...
...then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred...