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...love my culture, I love the music, and--look at me--I really love the food," the candidate told TIME last week. In Sacramento he is known as affable and competent, though not exactly a pacesetter. But Bustamante, who earned $117,513 in 2001, in contrast to Schwarzenegger's $26 million, is capitalizing on his low-key image and humble beginnings to appeal to the Democratic base and set himself apart from the wealthy Republicans he faces...
...didn't. Cell phones, the favorite target of legislators and late-night comedians, ranked relatively low on the list of distractions captured by Minicams in a weeklong survey for the American Automobile Association. Only 30% of drivers in the study were caught making calls from behind the wheel, in contrast to 97% who were spotted reaching or leaning, 91% who fiddled with the radio, 77% who ate or drank and 46% who groomed themselves. And 40% were seen reading or writing, though mostly at stop signs. Such distractions cause 1.2 million crashes a year and 12,000 fatalities. --By David...
...stay on top of the news. He famously mastered every comic venue his 20th century offered--vaudeville, Broadway, radio, movies, television--and even in his early days he did topical jokes, designed to be tossed aside and replaced by others on tomorrow's hot topic. This was in contrast to his peers, whose endlessly polished routines had to endure unchanging over the long years they toured the circuit. That skill made Hope the perfect comedian for the new media of radio and TV, which chewed up material (and personalities) at a manic rate. We were properly awed by his motormouth...
...contrast, three local schools—Boston College, Boston University and MIT—recently announced that they do not intend to comply with recent RIAA subpoenas filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, based on a component of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which states that subpoenas must be issued by a court within 100 miles of their subject...
...contrast, the endowment payout shrank by 0.8 percent in real terms in FY03. The University will likely record real declines in payout again for the current year and next year...