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...dead just a year ago, when voters rejected a number of conservative ballot initiatives he backed in a special election and his approval ratings plunged. But the former action movie hero quickly recast himself as a moderate pragmatist, making deals with the Democratic-controlled legislature on bills ordering a minimum wage hike and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. His centrist image restored by late summer, Schwarzenegger pulled ahead of Angelides and hasn't trailed since. Along the way, he has benefited from the perquisites of incumbency, sharing the spotlight with world leaders such as Tony Blair and scoring a seat...
...told TIME earlier this year. "They don't even listen to each other." Pelosi's initial goals, which she says she wants to accomplish in the Democrats' first 100 legislative hours in power, are modest and relatively uncontroversial. She would have the House pass bills aimed at raising the minimum wage, cutting student-loan interest rates, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients, and reforming lobbying practices...
...country of 300 million, it is far preferable for partisans, poll workers, defensive voting-machine manufacturers and voters to adjust to the new technologies, eliminate their weak spots and work to keep human errors to a minimum. In that way, voting by machine may someday be no more mysterious than making a visit...
...same-sex couples from marrying. Weisman said the commercial is a distraction from issues of more mportance to voters. "What you hear about is that Washington isn't listening," Weisman said. "The voters are concerned about the fact that is getting harder to make ends meet, and that the minimum wage has not gone up in a decade." In general, Ellsworth is not easy to portray as out of step with local values: he is also against abortion and gun control and for tougher immigration laws...
...Bette and Boo” as part of the HRDC’s yearly Visiting Director’s Project. Stern’s directing is expertly understated in that he emphasizes the character-based nature of the play. Stern keeps outside effects of sound and light to a minimum, maintaining the focus on the characters’ verbal and physical interactions—and thus making the play more powerful.Set designer Blase E. Ur ’07, who is also the president of the HRDC, worked with Stern to produce an amazing manipulation of the Loeb Theatre...