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Ever in search of needy, complaisant women, Will even answers phones for an Amnesty International telethon as a way of chatting up female callers. Eventually Will observes that single moms may be the most desperate demographic of all. So he devises a new scam. Pretending to be a single dad (which, naturally, entails having a pretend child), he joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) and gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas...
...effective agencies. After targeting a need--short-term funding for people who lived and worked near ground zero--Safe Horizon's CEO Gordon Campbell approached the September 11th Fund, an arm of the United Way and New York Community Trust, which had $150 million from the Tribute to Heroes telethon but no specific mission. The fund administrators were thrilled to pour money into an organization with a goal and support staff already in place. "We now have a revolving fund that they replenish," says Campbell. "We keep going back there every four days to ask for money...
...possibility: a televised megaconcert with performers celebrating American values like freedom and democracy. Bush advisers both inside and outside the White House thought the star-studded telethon that aired Sept. 21 was, as one put it, "very nice, but a little too Hollywood and New York"--i.e., liberal. The White House-sponsored event would be aimed at "educating a new generation of Americans on what war is all about." Think Lee Greenwood instead of Fred Durst, Brooks and Dunn in place of U2, Tom Selleck rather than Brad Pitt. And way fewer candles...
...about fighting battles abroad, it?s also about taking care of those in need at home as well. Some of today?s contemporary songs are already being reinterpreted by listeners looking for some solace in music. Sometime the artists themselves are doing the repurposing. Springsteen kicked off the recent telethon ?America: A Tribute to Heroes? with the song ?My City of Ruins.? "This is a prayer for our fallen brothers and sisters," Springsteen said before launching into the song. The song?s imagery of waste and destruction, and its gospelly chorus of ?C?mon rise up!? made it seem...
...Pledges made during the first 15 min. of the Tribute to Heroes telethon...