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...came into office promising to aggressively challenge special interests in the state capital says he regrets his earlier talk of "kicking [the] butts" of nurses and mocking "girlie men" legislators. After pulling his segments from all TV ads supporting the initiatives, Schwarzenegger last week released a humbler pitch in which he admitted to mistakes on the job. "The Governor has said he realizes there are some comments better left for Saturday Night Live," says one of his spokesmen, Todd Harris...
...couldn't work. She had undergone a double mastectomy. An earlier cancer of the uterus had eaten away at her stomach muscle so that a metal plate and artificial bladder were installed. Her children and other relatives offered to help, but Whitehouse is fiercely self-sufficient. Friends and neighbors pitch in to fill her shed with aluminum. "You put your pride in your pocket, and you learn to help yourself," she says. "I save cans...
...more men pitch in? That's a million-dollar question. It's possible that in the younger generations there is movement, although I must say that the more profound movement seems to be toward both sexes doing no housework...
...years later, when Disney was involved in a controversial effort to build a history theme park near the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia, the company wanted the state to pitch in $132 million for the necessary road improvements--a demand that was contributing to what was steadily becoming a genuine public relations calamity. By that time, Eisner was making $202 million a year, so I suggested publicly that he pay for the roads himself. That would still leave him an annual take of $70 million. We knew he could live on that, because...
...former team member Jonas Corl. Corl attended service in the church frequently and knew that it needed volunteers to work in the pantry. As a member of the wrestling team, he also knew where he could go to find plenty of capable volunteers. It was an easy pitch. “We have been given a ton by the University,” Baria says. “One of our goals is to provide for others less fortunate than us. It is the right thing to do.” Corl graduated last year. But what he started will...