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...Robbins, Charlton Heston and Alec Baldwin seem content to offer unsolicited political tips on everything from drug laws to foreign policy. But a coterie of other celebrities have suggested that, like Arnold, they may want to do more than just talk politics (or, as in the case of Harrison Ford, play them in the movies). As we have just seen, getting into the Governor's mansion may not be much harder than getting into an Academy Awards ceremony--and you don't even have to be nice to Joan Rivers. --By Harriet Barovick and Kate Novack...
...were in decline, Shoemaker steered 17-to-1 long shot Ferdinand to victory in the Kentucky Derby, making him the oldest jockey to ride a Derby winner. Shoemaker suffered only two major injuries in his 41-year racing career but was paralyzed in a 1991 car crash when his Ford Bronco veered off a road and rolled. He continued to train horses from a wheelchair until...
...Japan Precedents have been set, and they're not good. In 1974, Gerald Ford-dressed in a pair of borrowed formal trousers that barely reached his socks-met then-Emperor Hirohito. (Ford's own pants hadn't been packed.) And in 1992, the first President Bush famously vomited and collapsed in the middle of a sumptuous Japanese dinner. The current President Bush's 16-hour layover in Tokyo, beginning last Friday, proved more convivial, thanks to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent pledge of $1.5 billion to rebuild Iraq...
...hope is their students will go to college and ask for the [Celtic] courses, demand them,” Ford says. “I’m hoping for a grass-roots swell of interest...
Still, she, like Ford, is positive about the potential of events like the Celtic Colloquium and growing student interest to promote the expansion of Celtic studies at institutions of higher education...