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...Arnold Schwarzenegger has built his re-election campaign on a platform of "protecting the California dream." But this week his challenger, Democratic State Treasurer Phil Angelides, laid out his own dream theme, with a populist bent...
...Harvard is] picked number one for a reason,” said Brown head coach Phil Estes, whose Bears—the class of the Ivies last season at 6-1—are slated to meet Harvard in both teams’ league openers on Sept. 23. “Liam O’Hagan is a very good quarterback, he has a lot of tools, he’s a year better...
...identified with one of the few historical figures he unconditionally revered: Jesus. The Christ analogy can be pushed too far (Jesus was not a junkie, though he was a Jew), but there's no question that Lenny was relentlessly and unfairly hounded by the judiciary system. Record producer Phil Spector, who championed the comedian in his last year, claimed that Lenny "died from an overdose of police." Think that's an exaggeration? Well, Martin Garbus, one of Lenny's many lawyers, quotes a prosecutor in the the Manhattan D.A.'s office as saying, "I feel terrible about Bruce. We drove...
...beatable, after several ballot initiatives he championed were overwhelming rejected. According to results from the latest statewide Field Poll, as of July Schwarzenegger's job approval rating had rebounded to 49%, from 36% a year ago. Most importantly, the poll showed that after trailing his Democratic opponent, State Treasurer Phil Angelides, in voter preference surveys throughout the summer and fall of 2005, the Governor now leads by 8 points, 45% to 37%. "Voters are responding to the Governor's positive and optimistic message," says his campaign communications director, Katie Levinson...
...election were held in August, Democrats would be right to be worried," says Jason Kinney, a political consultant and former speechwriter for Democratic Governor Gray Davis who isn?t affiliated with the Angelides campaign. "But there?s still a long way to go. Once Phil?s message becomes focused and the campaign starts gaining momentum, everything else will follow...