They both put a lot of effort into keeping dogs alive. In September of '09, a vet told my sister the family Labrador had kidney failure and had a couple of weeks to live. My sister refused to accept that diagnosis, and poured thousands of dollars into various treatments and frequent trips to another vet. She managed to keep that dog alive for another six months.

Bruce Berkowitz seems to be going to similar lengths to keep his dog, St. Joe, alive. The WSJ reports that he and his sidekick Charlie Fernandez have traveled to Asia twice in the last six months in an attempt to woo tech companies to set up shop in JOE's Redneck Riviera: http://online.wsj.com/...

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