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  • CA: Shriver wants Schwarzenegger "back home"

    04/08/2005 11:06:24 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 21 replies · 833+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/8/05 | AP - Los Angeles
    LOS ANGELES (AP) - California First Lady Maria Shriver said Friday that having her husband serving as governor was hard on their family and that she would prefer to see Arnold Schwarzenegger "back home" instead of run for president. "While I was always raised to believe that public service is the most noble calling, it's all-encompassing," Shriver said on "The Oprah Winfrey Show. "And it's tough, if you have young children. And it's a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week job. I want him home." Appearing on the show alongside her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Shriver repeated several times that if she had her...
  • CA: Alex Nicoll makes it back home (Welcome Home, Marine!)

    02/05/2005 7:45:39 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 8 replies · 497+ views
    Times-Standard ^ | 2/5/05 | Mike Morrow
    McKINLEYVILLE -- Alex Nicoll scored his biggest touchdown Friday. A former football player and wrestler at McKinleyville High School, Nicoll returned home after being severely wounded almost three months ago in Iraq. Nicoll securely planted himself inside the gate at the Eureka/Arcata Airport, waved to friends and then smiled. Like he always does. "I may not have made it back in one piece, but I made it back," he said after embracing his younger brother Will and several friends. An infantry and urban warfare specialist in the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marine Division, Lance Cpl. Nicoll lost the lower...