Word: franciscos
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...earmarks” and support public financing of campaigns. Lessig said he will decide whether to make his run by March 1. The district in which Lessig would make a bid—California’s 12th—stretches from the south of San Francisco to San Mateo. The seat opened up when its former occupant, Democrat Thomas P. Lantos, who had held the seat since 1981, died earlier this month. A special election for the seat is scheduled for June 3. If he decides to mount a bid, Lessig would face off against Jackie Speier...
...allure. Veterans of the revolution, some wounded, some merely bored, are reinventing courtship and romance and discovering, often with astonishment, that they need not sleep together on the first or second date. Many individuals are even rediscovering the traditional values of fidelity, obligation and marriage. Or as one San Francisco sex therapist, Lonnie Barbach, puts it, "We've been going through a Me generation; now I see people wanting to get back into the We generation...
Portland, Ore. and San Francisco, Calif. topped the list...
...performance standards and parents with the means to pay an average of $900 for a six-week training session that they must back off and put the health of the child first. "Sports used to be this wonderful even playing field," says Regan McMahon, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle who has covered the professionalization of youth sports. "Now it's the rich kids who make the team. It's the upper-middle-class parents who can afford all of these supplemental programs...
...Super Tuesday, when she was given unusual access to Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail--snapping her during moments of silence before rallies and private conversations backstage. Walker even lay down on the floor to capture an image of Clinton's heels at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. Says she: "We want to show readers the images you won't see in the newspaper the next...