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...family made its way around the giant hall set up for distributing the cards and found an empty desk where two smiling Red Cross volunteers waited, Green and Clark worried that they'd be turned away. They weren't. After a brief interview that included completing some forms, Clark and Green, debit card in hand, turned their caravan of a family around and headed outside. Green wouldn't say how much they had received, but she looked crestfallen. ?It wasn't what I expected,? she said, her words betraying more bewilderment than anger. ?I'm not complaining. I'm grateful...
...California legislature to pass a pioneering bill authorizing gay marriage. But Arnold Schwarzenegger took less than 24 hours to decide to veto it. The reason? Pure politics, say both critics and supporters of the non-girlie-man Governor. "He didn't even let the bill get to his desk before announcing the veto," says Mark Leno, the openly gay state assemblyman who was the main backer. "He is pandering to the far right." Indeed, with the Governor's popularity rating down to 36% and Democrats alienated by his attacks on public-service unions, Schwarzenegger is now "more dependent...
...about the Sept. 18 vote for the country's parliament and provincial councils. But the students at the back of the room are more interested in the sudden appearance of a reporter than in how to mark a ballot. That's until their teacher slams her hand on the desk. "Why are you not listening?" she chides. "You must pay attention to how the elections will work, so you can teach others, so you can make a good decision. Don't you understand? You are the future of Afghanistan...
...corrected, Gray used his time to work up a funny monologue in which his experiences, giddily exaggerated, commented on the folly and wastefulness of human enterprise. Further, Gray had the wit not to waste his routine in living rooms. He staged his chat -- just the speaker seated at his desk, a map behind him -- in theaters across the U.S. Now Director Jonathan Demme has filmed it in a manner matching Gray's; it is expert in an innocent- seeming...
...quieter you kept, the more wary people would be. Intimidate them and not give anything away." It worked. "Clayton was an incredible rebel, in the true sense of the word," Bono recalls fondly. "He would come into class with a flask of coffee and put it up on his desk and start to drink. The people would blow their heads...