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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2006 – U.S. servicemembers deployed worldwide will get a special Valentine's Day serenade from the largest medical musical group in the United States. Members of the VA-National Medical Chorale and Symphony Orchestra Feb. 6 as it performs a bevy of classical, popular and patriot music before a Pentagon audience for broadcast to overseas troops on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14, over the Pentagon Channel and American Forces Radio and Television Service. Photo by Doug Moss   The nonprofit VA-National Medical Chorale and Symphony Orchestra today performed a bevy of classical, popular and patriot music before a Pentagon audience...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (McCLATCHY) - No one can accuse Arnold Schwarzenegger of not being able to work a room. The new governor was at Frank Fat's restaurant the other night for the annual Chinese New Year celebration and unveiled his own "napkin deal" with Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, the San Francisco Democrat who'll have a lot to say about the final shape of Schwarzenegger's budget proposal. Fat's was scene of a famous 1987 tort "reform" deal sketched on a tablecloth and later copied to a napkin so senators could see details the following day. "I agree to support Proposition...