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RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the country's first Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the brusque and blunt former New York City police commissioner who won praise for his calm crisis management in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks...
...state from the likes of super-size sodas and pizzas each year. Although California was the first state to forbid soft-drink sales at elementary and junior high schools last year, bans on junk food in schools face opposition across the U.S. A bill by Iowa's Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat, to let the Federal Government develop nutrition guidelines for vending-machine food was scuttled by both parties. No other state has a food ban as strict as the one in Texas. Even Mom's home-baked goodies, sold to benefit the school art program or the prom...
...filibuster is a tactic Reid quite enjoys, since it gives him the opportunity to stall proceedings by reading aloud long passages from the book he wrote about Searchlight. His utter mastery of the rules and his reputation for honesty are why he got the job after his friend Tom Daschle of South Dakota was defeated for re-election...
...same time, Schwarzenegger is coming under attack by Republicans on his right who object to his progressive position on many social issues. Says state senator Tom McClintock, who ran against Schwarzenegger in the election that recalled Davis: "You cannot finance socially liberal programs with fiscally conservative policies. The math just doesn't work." Conservatives like McClintock think Schwarzenegger caved in too easily to Democratic opposition to a $1 billion cut in health and social services last year. They also disapproved of the Governor's support for a ballot initiative, passed handily in November, that provided $3 billion in state funds...
...says Pat Clarey, his chief of staff. "It is kind of fun walking the hallways with him as the cameras go off." Schwarzenegger's mantra to the office staff is borrowed from the movies"Action, action, action." Not surprisingly, a steady stream of celebrities drops by: Clint Eastwood, Tom Arnold, Danny DeVito, Anthony Hopkins, Jamie Lee Curtis. Clarey posts snapshots of the famous visitors on her office wall...