Word: orlandos
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...Next Tuesday, he'll be doing it as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This week, as President Bush ended three days in Florida by talking Medicare in Orlando and then riding Air Force One back to Andrews Air Force base, was McClellan's final swing. He has given 502 formal briefings and traveling gaggles as the President's second White House Press Secretary, along with hundreds of informal gaggles at the White House and dozens more as Ari Fleischer's deputy before that. McClellan said he joked to the traveling staff: "If at any point...
...Despite the huge marches in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, many immigrants skipped the boycott either for fear of losing their jobs or because they simply could not afford to lose even a single day's wages. Orlando Sandoval of Nicaragua did not attend the rally in Miami because he was afraid if he missed a day answering phones or packing fish at Signature Seafood, he would be fired. In Chicago, Manuel Escelante, a Honduran who works for the Chicago Park District, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point...
...school-age kids wouldn't miss classes. Still others planned to attend church services or to join the protests during their lunch breaks. Rather than simply walk off the job, some workers requested paid time off or shifted their regular work schedule to later in the day. Orlando Garcia, a native of Honduras who now owns a trucking business in Miami, took the day off to attend the Miami rally, but planned to go back to work...
...this double voyage, Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer re-enlisted the old crew: director Gore Verbinski, writers Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott and stars Johnny Depp (as scurvy Captain Jack), Orlando Bloom (the young hero, Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (Will's fiancé, Elizabeth Swann). They all seem pumped. "There's a kid inside most of the people on this crew," Verbinski says, "that gets juiced to get up in the morning and say, 'Hey, we're doing this.' This is the type of movie that says it's fun to go to the theater again...
...around a steamy, 30,000-sq.-ft. Tampa, Fla., warehouse on a hi-low, moving pallets to fit 3 million cans, bottles and gallon jugs of Arizona into the space. Vultaggio had flown from his Lake Success, N.Y., headquarters early that morning to reorganize the space, stopping first in Orlando, Fla., to shake hands with Arnold Palmer, whose face graces the can of Arizona's half-iced-tea, half-lemonade drink. But forget about lounging at the 19th hole: Vultaggio worked the warehouse until 3 a.m., then returned for a 10-hour shift on Saturday. Asked whether he would rather...