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Schwarzenegger is crossing his fingers that the massive public-works plan will help rescue him from political disaster. His approval ratings are well below 40%, his re-election day is just 10 months away, and he's still recovering from the defeat of his pet ballot initiatives by voters who thought he had become too conservative and combative during the special election last November. The Republican Governor is trying to rally by championing levee restoration and a host of other largely nonpartisan programs in a concerted attempt to recast himself as the consensus-building centrist he promised to be when...
...rapid development. You can't ignore the largest country in the world. This won't be an overnight success. But this isn't like pet rocks, which were terrific on Monday and not so good on Tuesday. Is there any doubt China will be bigger in online-recruitment revenue than the U.S. at some point? None. Will it take 10 years? Twenty years? Doesn't matter...
...minutes before U2 was due to perform, Bono strolled in and plopped himself down--not on the couch or near it but on top of it, like a household pet. Then he began talking about the one interest that Clooney, Wolfowitz and almost everyone else who had come to Scotland that day had in common: persuading developed nations to help lift 1 billion people out of extreme poverty. Bono's precise words on the subject are lost to history. "I couldn't stop looking at him," says Clooney. "He's so affectless. You felt like you're in the living...
Boyfriend who uses lots of pet-names: To be blunt: I find pet names insufferable. It should be said, however, that there’s a big difference between a fond greeting and maudlin appellations. You want to be able to communicate (and not in baby talk) your concerns to your babbling beau. He may be a little embarrassed, but he’ll ultimately appreciate the fact that you don’t cringe every time he addresses you. Maybe he’ll even learn an important lesson: a woman should be respected...
...after all, the nonprofit equivalent of a multinational. But it turned out that McCormick had also received a $75,000 sign-on bonus, $75,000 to cover living expenses, a $1.7 million loan to buy a new house and a no-strings-attached discretionary fund to use toward finishing pet projects...