Redford, a longtime environmental activist born and raised in Santa Monica, said the building symbolized a step forward for the conservation movement, which he said had been dealt setbacks by the Bush administration.
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Day: November 16, 2003
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Wired News: Redford Retrofits Green Building
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Bush-Bashing
Just because I’m in such a Bush-Bashing mood this morning here are some presidential facts courtesy of The Independent.
Bush telegraph: selected presidential facts:
-In May 2001, Bush’s government gave $43m to the Taliban.
-Bush has never attended a funeral or memorial service for a soldier killed in Iraq.
-In August this year, Bush took the second-longest holiday ever by a US president: 28 days.
-Bush’s 16-member cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with an average fortune of $10.9m each.
-As governor of Texas, Bush executed 152 prisoners.
-Sixty-one people who raised $100,000 for Bush’s 2000 election campaign have since been given government posts.
-Nine members of Bush’s Defense Policy Board sit on the board of defence contractors or are advisers.
-Bush owns more than 250 autographed baseballs.
-Bush has been arrested three times: for stealing a Christmas wreath from a hotel; for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after a Princeton-Yale game; and for drunk driving.
-Bush infuriated the Russian media by spitting a wad of chewing gum into his hand before signing 2002’s historic Treaty of Moscow with Vladimir Putin.
-While appearing on the David Letterman show in 2000, Bush was caught surreptitiously cleaning his glasses on the jacket of the programme’s executive producer, Maria Pope.
16 November 2003 10:44
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Bush Goes to London
Bush is going to London and he is goinf to get a nast reception. 100 000 people are going to protest his arrival there…
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Op-Ed Contributor: Op-Chart
How is it really going in Iraq??? A little chart that outlines some scary numbers about what is really going on there.
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Prez in Topless Tabloid (washingtonpost.com)
Bush does an exclusive interview with The Sun (owned by Rupert Murdoch) (washingtonpost.com) “His only other one-on-one interviews with print publications this year have been with USA Today, Leaders magazine and Sports Illustrated.”
“Word on Fleet Street is it’s an obvious payoff to the Sun’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, the conservative publisher behind many Bush-friendly news outlets such as Fox News.”
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The War Within