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...elected officials have stumbled as badly of late as Schwarzenegger, 58, who rode a wave of voter discontent into office in a recall election in late 2003. His reversal of fortune reached its apogee last week in another special election, when four ballot initiatives he pushed were all resoundingly defeated. The measures would have increased from two to five the number of years it takes schoolteachers to qualify for tenure, required public-sector unions to get permission from members before using their dues for political campaigns, turned congressional redistricting over to a panel of retired judges rather than legislators...
...first two letters of the Christian names of five of owner Tony Santic's female staffers. "When you see them running their maiden at Benalla and coming fourth, you don't put them down as one to watch," says Childs. But Boss easily recalls the first time he rode Makybe, at a track-work session one morning in 2003. The sense that here was something special was almost instantaneous. "It was like getting out of an old bomb into a really good car," he says. "If you asked her to run through a wall, she'd ask how fast...
...poll shows 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq. The remaining 34% think Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church." --TINA FEY, co-anchor on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update...
...with six friends, driving to Memphis to stay with one of their families. It was supposed to be a “hurricane vacation,” a chance to get out of New Orleans while yet another storm drove past the city. Last September, for Hurricane Ivan, Noero rode with some frat buddies all the way to Houston, where they went to concerts and bars as if they had planned the trip all along...
...their children and Yolanda's mother, who has Alzheimer's and diabetes, one day before the hurricane hit. They drove away from the storm for more than 28 hours, averaging 10 m.p.h. most of the way. The brakes of their gray Suzuki Esteem hatchback eventually gave out, so they rode the emergency brake. "I said, 'C'mon, baby, you gotta get us out of here,'" says Yolanda. "She names her cars. This one was Betsy," explains Jan, laughing and holding Yolanda's hand in the Attleboro kitchen...