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Twain's desire for privacy is hardly discouraged by him. The Rhodesian-born Lange, 53, started out writing radio jingles before producing heavy metal for AC/DC, disco for Billy Ocean, arena rock for Foreigner and adult contemporary for Bryan Adams. Lange has also written or co-written 135 pop songs, including Do You Believe in Love for Huey Lewis & the News and I Finally Found Someone for Barbra Streisand. He has been honored with numerous awards from the American Society of Composers and Producers and has never accepted a single one. He has not done an interview for 30 years...
Marbury Madison--the ears-akimbo German shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback mix who came from the pound--looks, frankly, like a neurotic mess. He glances cringingly at a stranger and slinks away behind the 26-month-old twins. By contrast, the twins, Christopher and Siena, toddle toward a downstairs playroom with the focused, menacing energy of a tornado aimed at an Alabama trailer camp. It is left to the lovely Alice, a tortoiseshell cat, to perform ceremonies of greeting and accept a scratch behind the ears...
...nights of coverage on the USA network, and for the third year in a row the dogs beat ESPN's star-studded ESPY Awards in the ratings. Not that Westminster doesn't have its stars. Bill Cosby owns a highly regarded lakeland terrier, Greg Louganis entered a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre's cousin, C.J. Favre, showed a puli and a Kerry blue. In general, there is an appealing warp to the woof at Westminster: Where else can you find society matrons whooping it up with 4-H Clubbers, or vendors bellowing "Champagne here"? A vendor named...
Fortunately for analytical purposes, there is a historical example nearly identical to South Africa--the case of the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In a groundbreaking study of the Rhodesian case, economic historian Johan Galtung concludes that 12 years of total economic embargo--the strongest international sanctions ever imposed before the Iraq-Kuwait crisis--not only failed to break the regime's resolve, but actually solidified...
...dreamed of working with animals, but her college science grades were too low to qualify her for veterinary school. Working as an occupational therapist proved an insufficient outlet for Fossey's yearnings. In 1963 she took her first trip to Africa, where she paired off with a strapping young Rhodesian farmer. An on-again-off-again engagement eventually ended, as did a later romance with a nature photographer. Her tempestuous affair with Africa endured...