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...list, but it wasn't possible to narrow it down any further," Johnson said. "And then the slashings stopped...
That's just the final polish, though: no dog can hope to be a champion without conforming to a very narrow standard of physical perfection set by individual dog clubs and ratified by the AKC. And customer-conscious breeders have obliged by creating prizewinning dogs with specific traits, such as long ears in cocker spaniels or sloping hips in German shepherds...
...This is just about the narrow question of whether--pending a determination on the merit--the results will be certified or not," she said. "The fact that the [four] questions are certified doesn't mean they won't be ultimately struck down as unconstitutional...
...Lawrence-The Story of a Marriage demonstrates its author's adeptness at conveying both one man's eccentricities and the collective neuroses of a seemingly distant time and place. The book also serves as a reminder of our own generation's unhealthily narrow-minded obsession with sexual identity. Amidst the increasingly convoluted discourse of love, marriage and sexual orientation, Maddox refuses to offer simple answers where none exist. D.H Lawrence embodied a kind of erotic pleasure that was oddly circumscribed. He articulated a "free love" ethic which Maddox reveals to be perversely doctrinaire and neurotic. His latest biographer appreciates these...
...This only protects a very narrow number of people," she said, adding that middle class people would still be displaced and the city would end up with the rich and the very poor...