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...asking him to leave the Republican Party. A leading grass-roots group, the California Republican Assembly, is lobbying to rescind the G.O.P.'s preprimary endorsement of Schwarzenegger. Those activists have collected more than 10,000 signatures on an online petition urging The Passion of the Christ director Mel Gibson, a conservative Catholic, to run against Schwarzenegger for Governor. "His reaction to the special election was to raise a white flag in surrender to the liberals," complains Mike Spence, who heads the assembly. "Schwarzenegger's going to have to give conservatives a reason to vote for him. Otherwise...
...Gibson candidacy is a long shot, not least because the movie star has not shown any interest in Schwarzenegger's job. But Spence thinks conservatives may have another way to show their displeasure?by backing Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman Project, which is agitating against illegal immigrants, and a possible independent candidate in the general election. As it stands, with a Democratic challenger expected to get full support from the party's re-energized base, strategists say Schwarzenegger will need to draw a big chunk of votes from conservative Republicans, who make up about 67% of the Republican...
...Katrina roared toward New Orleans, more than a million people fled the area, but 29 of the city's littlest, most sickly babies were left to ride out the storm in University Hospital. Many, born prematurely, were too weak to make the trip. Gail Gibson's job was to make sure they stayed alive--and Katrina posed an extraordinary challenge, isolating Gibson, her staff and their charges for five days. The incubators had stopped working, so the nurses had to carry the babies in their arms most of the time to keep them warm. Moved PermanentlyMoved Permanently
...horrors began the first day when the staff heard that the levees had been breached. "People got really scared and thought they were going to drown," says Gibson, 44, a nursing administrator. "The staff was getting calls from members of their families who were stuck in attics as the water was rising." Some wanted to leave any way possible--and take their tiny charges with them. Gibson went from group to group, telling them that they would get out "when it is safe." But she too was worrying--about her husband and two children, whom she had not heard from...
...Gibson was near exhaustion, having had no sleep most of the week. Yet she took on more duties, overseeing nurses in other areas of the hospital. On what turned out to be their last night, the staff successfully delivered a 23-week-old preemie using lights and minimal equipment run by three portable generators. The next day, they were finally evacuated. All the babies are fine. "We don't feel like heroes," says Gibson. "We just wanted our babies to go home alive and be reunited with their parents." Mission accomplished...