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...most famous line--"Hasta la vista, baby"--notwithstanding, Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be speaking a different language from most of California's 2.5 million registered Hispanic voters. Between the 2003 recall that put him in office, when Schwarzenegger drew 31% of the Latino vote, and his announcement last week that he will run for re-election in 2006, the Governor's support among Hispanics has fallen to just 17% of Latino residents, according to a recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California...
DIED. IBRAHIM FERRER, 78, Cuban singer whose global fame came late in life with the hit 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club, which introduced new generations of fans to the island's traditional son music of the 1940s and '50s; in Havana. Plucked from obscurity--when asked to sing on the Ry Cooder-- produced album, Ferrer was shining shoes to supplement his retirement income--the septuagenarian was named Best New Artist in 2000 at the Latin Grammys for his first solo album...
...even grew angry. Was I saying God had punished Aceh? Wasn't Aceh famous as the cradle of Islam in Southeast Asia? Wasn't it known worldwide for the deep religious belief of its inhabitants? "If anything," an elderly man named Marzuki told me, gesturing to the vista of flattened buildings that stretched away for miles around us, "all this is because we weren't religious enough. We must always have faith. Without faith we are nothing...
...blithe dismissals. He is one of two Disney executives in charge of overseeing the lovability of The Love Bug. This was his first project after taking the unusual leap from his post-college post in Disney’s corporate strategy division to the creative side in the Buena Vista Motion Pictures group. The Crimson communicated with Simon via e-mail to chat about Lindsay Lohan’s tabloid life style, his own career path, and what it’s like to digitally reduce Lindsay Lohan’s breasts...
...regular basis, switching from Cajun-Creole to New Mexican to Shaker. I'm missionary about it." Shaker food, along with the fare of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the American Indians, has already packed them in at special festivals in the formal American Harvest restaurant at Manhattan's Vista International Hotel. And surely eclectic the word for the menu at Bootsie, Winky & Miss Maud in Washington, where Owner-Chef Bob Green beguiles illustrious visitors like Sandra Day O'Connor with fresh pickled trout Hemingway; New England baked stuffed clams; Philadelphia submarines; winter cabbage leaf stuffed with sausage, rice and cashew nuts...