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...five California cities cheerfully urging residents to "help us amend for Arnold!" Who is behind this compassionate crusade? Not the Republican machine or the Austrian government but former college roommates Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones, a philanthropist in Woodside, Calif., and Mimi Chen, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles, who just cannot get enough of the Governator. The women graduated from Princeton in 1979 and went on to have careers well suited to championing a cause: Morgenthaler-Jones was a money manager and Chen was a DJ. When Schwarzenegger ran for Governor, both women, who by then had left their...
...schools face opposition across the U.S. A bill by Iowa's Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, to let the Federal Government develop nutrition guidelines for vending-machine food was scuttled by both parties. No other state has a food ban as strict as the one in Texas. Even Mom's home-baked goodies, sold to benefit the school art program or the prom, can't be eaten during school hours...
...family has gone caroling at a local nursing home and visited a soup kitchen. "What influenced my husband and me was thinking back to what we enjoyed about Christmas growing up," Pursell explains. "It was never the number or size of toys we received or how many cookies my mom baked. It was about family being together and observing the holiday. That togetherness creates the warmest, most lasting memories...
...Berends, a community college instructor who has seen Nino more than 50 times. Having charmed Grand Rapids citizens, Nino at long last is scheduled to open nationwide, in February. Says co-star Archer: "This is a movie for the people who put Bush back into office." Mantegna's mom Mary Ann told Shallcross she was delighted for a different reason: "I enjoy any movie where my son doesn't get whacked." --By Wendy Cole
...says the show's makers assess applications on "need and, to the extent we can judge it, merit. We look for people who have been nominated by their neighbors, people whose communities have told us are really special." The show also hews to the old formula of something for Mom, Dad and the kids: five-hankie stories, plus home-improvement tips, plus guys ripping off roofs with tractors. The renovations run to several hundred thousand dollars, the costs defrayed by conspicuous product placements...