The Foreign Service Journal, November 2003

owners and their dogs will compete in a series of obedience, agility and humor trials, such as owners and dogs with the best matching costumes, the funniest trick, and the most ath- letic pair. “Think Fear Factor meets American Idol meets Best in Show,” state backers of the venture, to be pro- duced by Indigo Films. A book, Do You Look Like Your Dog?, which features 100 of the own- ers who most looked like their dogs as of the book’s June 1 contest deadline, is due for publication in January 2004 by Broadway Books, a division of Random House. Contest entrants are divided into eight main groups: work- ing, herding, sporting, non-sporting, terriers, hounds, toys, and just plain mutts. The Do You Look Like Your Dog? contest Web site also features links to research on why people look like and share key personality traits with their dogs, including a research study com- paring Pomeranian and Siberian Husky owners and a workshop called “What Kind of Dog Are You?,” for people to better understand them- selves and others based on the dogs they choose. Other research projects have begun on cops and canines and an exploration of how people who are drawn to different breeds differ in their personality, interests, activities, and lifestyles. (Perhaps a future edi- tion will feature diplomatic dogs.) The contest, Web site, book and reality show are all the brainchildren of Gini Graham Scott, a sociologist interested in psychological profiling, who became fascinated with the way people look like their dogs after attending the Golden Gate Kennel dog show in San Francisco in 1992 ( http://www.worldofdogs.org/who. htm ). C Y B E R N O T E S 14 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / N O V E M B E R 2 0 0 3 Home Suite Home The next time you’re going to be in DC for an extended stay, make yourself at home at Georgetown Suites. With our discounted monthly rates and large, comfortable suites, you’ll feel right at home. Plus we’re near the State Department. Call today! Georgetown Suites the fun place to stay in DC 1-800-348-7203 www.georgetownsuites.com sales@georgetownsuites.com 50 Years Ago... The voices of advocacy are constant, repetitious and insistent; they speak in different tongues. But above “the sounding brass or tinkling cymbal” of discordance and ten- sion, one can hear the steady beat of the motif of stubborn faith in the [United Nations] Charter vision of a better world. — William Sanders, in “Assignment to the United Nations,” FSJ , November 1953.