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...dish runs all the way from chicken croquettes to chunks of pure beef. Pet-food makers insist that there is a little of the gourmand in every dog and cat, and last year they spent $52.5 million to advertise their argument-more than 80% of it on television ... The basic pitch is always to an owner's heart, not to his pocketbook. 'People always feel they have neglected their pet,' says Morris Levinson, president of Associated Products ... 'To help solve the guilt feelings, people want to feed their pet better-like themselves.' 'Who knows what greatness lives in the heart...
...prepare them to manage the 72 programs and 1,800 volunteers within PBHA. Those teaching the new courses emphasized the potential benefit of the program to Harvard students. “Individuals are embedded in communities and larger social structures, whether or not we are aware of that basic fact,” Van C. Tran, resident tutor in sociology and social policy for Lowell House and teaching fellow for the new course Sociology 19, “Reinventing Boston: The Changing American City,” wrote in an e-mail. “As a result, students would...
...Iraq invasion and its chaotic aftermath have damaged the U.S. for the foreseeable future. The basic premise for going to war was wrong, and Bush's and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's team made grievous mistakes that will forever define Bush's presidency. Will a troop surge help? No, it will continue to fill the President's last years in office with dead soldiers and ever increasing anger and threats. Fred Adkins London...
...rhetoric. "He is not consulting us," says Ugas Abdullah Ugas Farah, chairman of all Somalia's tribes. "That means clanism. And that means the man with the biggest gun is in charge." Mohamed Uluso, a clan leader from the Ayr tribe, adds: "There is no basic trust. The government is not reaching out to anyone. The people are charged to explode...
Even after he laid down his arms and joined the political process as an elected representative of the Northern Ireland assembly, Martin McGuinness, the longtime face of the Irish Republican Army, never gave up his basic distrust of the troubled province's Protestant police force. A grandfather with a receding hairline and a twinkling eye, he still presented himself as a kind of outlaw, reminiscing about the days he spent "on the run" - hiding from the police that many of Northern Ireland's Catholics viewed as anything but an impartial keeper of the peace...