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Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign opened with a blast worthy of Terminator 3, with the leading man muscling to the front of the pack even as he stayed largely out of sight in his first full week as a politician. He also added a supporting actor: Rob Lowe, of West Wing fame, who signed on to coordinate celebrity endorsements and other duties. But holding an audience for two months, as opposed to two hours, is a new challenge for the actor. That's why his team is working behind the scenes to build a brain trust and an agenda that...
...infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division, which has been in Iraq since the onset of the war - which by the way is still a war - the Army is indeed being stretched too thin. There are no replacements in sight for our unit, which we're told will be here for over a year. Retention - and most of all the health and welfare of soldiers and their families - are in dire straits. The current admistration, in particular Secretary Rumsfeld, seems to be oblivious to the needs of the Army and the soldiers who dedicate their lives to it. I only hope...
...listened to during the heat wave, are telling a larger, darker story. The heat wave only made visible, they say, a crisis that had been under way for years: a chronically under-funded and understaffed elder care system combined with a national habit of shutting senior citizens out of sight and mind. "The French family structure is more dislocated than elsewhere in Europe, and prevailing social attitudes hold that once older people are closed behind their apartment doors or in nursing homes, they are someone else's problem," laments Stéphane Mantion, an official with the French Red Cross...
...Paris a month earlier by Mikhail Youzhny. It was -25?C, Kalinichenko recalls, but some 8,000 people, including Zhbanova, gathered in the city square to stare at the cup, "so proud and patriotic they felt about our country's great victory." Zhbanova is more pragmatic. "The sight of that cup," she remembers, "made me even more eager to make it." Then she grabs her racket and gets back to work...
Harrigan told jurors that he was outside the Brighton station house talking to another officer when he caught sight of Byrne and Trombly acting unusually through the station’s windows. He said that once he entered the guard room he saw Byrne swearing at Trombly as he grabbed him with one hand and hit him with the other. Harrigan said he did not see Trombly fight back...