Word: campaigners
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...describe how you've made some sacrifices in the way that you live? I stopped flying. I live in a much smaller house. I no longer even accept a paycheck. I just pay my expenses out of our campaign funds. I don't own a car. You may give something up, but in a way you get much more back in return for living a simpler, more responsible life. (Read "Why New York City Is Greener Than Vermont...
...make a living off of your work if you are constantly getting arrested? I have an office, and I have a room in the office. My rent is paid by the campaign. We have a kitchen, and we feed the staff, so I eat with the staff. We're almost kind of a quasi-military operation; we have about 25 people living together and eating meals at the same time. I don't actually pay myself...
...shows in 16 college towns, Oren Peli's haunted-house thriller expanded on Friday to full playdates at 159 venues and scared up a phenomenal $7.1 million. That's $44,475 per screen, making this the highest-ever average for a medium-size release. Paramount Pictures' clever viral media campaign helped, but credit the movie's breakout status to old-fashioned word of mouth and newfangled word of thumb. Twitter strikes again. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
Saturday night President Obama charmingly delivered a rather bleak message to the gay community on the eve of its latest march on Washington. In a speech to the world's largest gay political group, the Human Rights Campaign, Obama essentially said two things: I'm with you. But I can't do much...
Arias backers like Leon, who as the director of Arias' Peace With Nature campaign is in charge of green projects from national park endowments to getting climate change into school curriculums, admit there are some "inconsistencies" in the government's actions. But he insists Arias is "sincere" about the environment and deserves credit as a "world environmental leader." Leon adds that "making peace with nature," like making peace between ideological enemies a generation ago, is a "a logical sequence to Arias' career." But with little more than a year to go in his second, environmental presidency, a growing number...