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...RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Pete Sampras, 32, the quiet yet dominant American tennis champion who won a record 14 Grand Slam titles; in a ceremony at the U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York. Sampras won the U.S. Open at the age of 19 and was the only player to finish six straight seasons ranked as the world's No. 1. In his 13-year career, he raked in a hefty $43 million in prize money, another record for the sport...
Schwarzenegger's political organization is still very much a work in progress, built largely from the team that surrounded former Governor Pete Wilson. Some might question that choice, given that the Republican Party in California has yet to get itself back on the rails after Wilson's disastrous anti-immigration effort. But who Schwarzenegger surrounds himself with may not matter. The way in which the actor made his announcement suggests he's not a candidate who will heed his advisers--or even tell them what he plans...
...over whether to join the circus now or run a few years later as he had always planned, former Governor Wilson privately offered him a piece of advice he had got from Richard Nixon back in 1966, when Wilson was wrestling with a decision on entering a race. "Jesus, Pete," Nixon told him. "If you think you can win, you got to go now." For once, Schwarzenegger knew, the question wasn't whether to seize the moment--it was whether to let the moment seize him. --With reporting by Sean Scully/Los Angeles, Matthew Cooper, John F. Dickerson, Michael Duffy, Douglas...
...governors and people who will establish businesses. And I hope over many years to come I’ll be able to say, ‘I was in the Kennedy School with that person’ and be able to call and say, ‘Hey, Pete, congratulations,’ or ‘Mary, I just read about your election. It’s wonderful...
...Come over here and make me. I dare you. You little fruitcake." REPRESENTATIVE PETE STARK, California Democrat, at a Ways and Means Committee meeting that erupted in a dispute over pension reform. Capitol police were called to restore order...