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...whole deal, as 42 might say, was 43's idea. Looking for a way to showcase the U.S. relief effort after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami last December, George W. Bush wondered if his two immediate predecessors in the White House might be willing to suit up and hit the road. He asked his chief of staff, "Do you think they'd work together?" The easy, reflex answer would have been no. George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton came from different generations, from different social classes and from opposing political parties. Their 1992 face-off wasn't exactly...
...they arrived in Washington last January to take on the tsunami job, the Bush-Clinton task was fairly limited: tour the region, collect information about how to help foreign governments, direct Americans to the right charities and send a signal at home and abroad that the U.S. takes the relief effort seriously. It didn't take long for the ice to break: both men discovered that they hated repeated rehearsals of television spots and tried to entertain each other between takes. During a round of joint interviews, Clinton put his former rival at ease by changing the subject when reporters...
...first half of the year was in part getting to know you, their work in the second could be called getting down to business. Phase 2 began after both made a discovery neither expected. Even though they had never tried to raise money directly for the tsunami-relief effort (they had simply guided donors to established charities), checks had rolled into their offices. It was a lot of money too: more than $12 million at last count, and it was still coming in last week. Many of the checks, moreover, came from people who attached notes making clear that...
While shoppers with COOP membership numbers look forward to receiving rebate checks each year, a new COOP program now offers members the chance to donate their rebates to aid hurricane relief on the Gulf Coast. The COOP has also agreed to match all donations up to $50,000. All money raised will be distributed to Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association (PHBHA) and to The MIT Public Service Center. According to General Manager Allan E. Powell, so far The COOP has collected over $34,000 from rebates, and will match that amount and then distribute the money. Powell...
...viewer with the realistic reenactment of a geisha’s life while embellishing Golden’s creation through great filmmaking. After last month when the saccharine “Pride and Prejudice” utterly failed to deliver the essence of the novel, it is a relief to see that Hollywood can still successfully adapt good literature...