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...concern. Spouses, parents and friends can set up lotteries or deposit contracts for one another too. Or you can make it even simpler: give a trusted person $100 or so, with instructions that if you cheat on your diet or no-smoking pledge, the money be donated - in your name - to a political candidate or group you find objectionable (Greenpeace if you work for an oil company, for example, or an SUV club if you work for Greenpeace). Whatever the strategy, the person holding the cash has to adhere to the rules, no matter what - which is not always easy...
...plant collectors and mountaineers. I like accounts of people climbing mountains though I myself do not want to climb mountains. Generally people who write about their adventures in mountains tend to be good writers. 7. FM: Why the interest in plants?JK: I’m a gardener. My name is even registered in a collection. It’s actually the thing I’m most proud of: my name in plant collecting. It’s not even my name, you would never know what the “K” stands for if I didn?...
...rumored to be considering an offer to fill the Senate seat currently occupied by Hillary R. Clinton, according to media reports last week.New York Gov. David A. Paterson met with Kennedy last week to discuss the position and assess her potential interest in it, the reports said. Paterson will name a replacement after Clinton’s expected confirmation as Secretary of State next month.‘HERS FOR THE ASKING’Insiders say Kennedy is likely to get the job should she decide to pursue it.“Rumor has it that it?...
...night marked the first public hearing on the issue since the measure was proposed in April, held by the city’s Government Operations and Rules Committee. City Council members voiced support for a compromise measure that would add “Halberstam” as an honorary name to the street but would leave the official designation as Plympton St. “The compromise of not renaming but creating an honorific sign system is a good one,” said councillor Henrietta Davis. “It allows us to keep the past in the present...
...decides against Kennedy, Paterson could name an upstate candidate with downstate appeal, like popular Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African-American Democrat who could win over liberal voters in New York City. (Brown garnered 6% overall in the Marist poll and 10% among upstate voters.) State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, besides polling even with Kennedy in the Marist survey, offers Paterson another benefit. The "accidental" governor - who replaced Eliot Spitzer after his resignation amid a highly publicized sex scandal - will have to run for his own office in 2010, and Cuomo could be a formidable challenger in the Democratic primary...