Suzanne White on the op-ed page of The New York Times, February 10, 1993. The Times describes Ms. White as the "author of three books on Chinese astrology."

Tonight at midnight, we ring in the Chinese New Year. Good riddance to a Rooster year—notorious for sending us on a harrowing ride to hell and back and then forcing us to start over from scratch—and welcome to the Year of the Wood Dog. Whenever the Dog comes to power, we can look forward to 12 fractious months of recovery. In Dog years, the weather calms down and the political climate heats up.

Bill Clinton, born a Leo in 1946, is a Fire Dog. A Leo and a Dog: that's our President. The Dog symbolizes caring, protection and justice; he is the devoted guardian of the hearth. If you don't believe me, watch him bounding, Labrador like, on his morning run. Observe his tail-wagging, I'm-so-glad-to-see-you grin when he greets his constituents. How about that wrinkled bulldog brow as he ponders his next move, the dogged determination to win and the willingness to lead the pack? It's uncanny: he's the archetypal Leo/Dog...

The President's archrival, Bob Dole, was born a Virgo in 1923. This makes him a Water Pig—more pure than Ivory soap...

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