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Candidate founded group to shift children's 'thinking, values, action' Presidential candidate John Kerry and his wife, Teresa, organized a group 11 years ago with an agenda to use public schools at all levels to "leverage change" throughout U.S. society by instigating "a complete shift in thinking, values and action" among America's youth. Second Nature, run by Anthony Cortese, an adviser to Kerry who has campaigned for him this year, promotes the notion of "Education for Sustainability" in schools across the country – from kindergarten through the universities. Cortese, president of the organization that is financed principally by Teresa Heinz Kerry's...

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After leaving the Flip-Flop Express behind in Kingman, Arizona, the Dorknamic Duo and their Yellow Bracelets (are these for Lance Armstrong's cancer charity?) got on the campaign bus to go to Vegas.   1) Although they crossed the Hoover Dam, there's no picture of Dork Gigolo trying to climb to the edge and look over.  The campaign bus stopped for the night at the posh Bellagio Hotel (no Holiday Inn Express or Circus Circus for ShoveIt! Woman, of course), where they slept for the night.  So far, there are no pictures of Dork Gigolo in or near the casino --- I guess...

Crowd drawn to Heinz Kerry By Monica McLellanSun Staff Reporter 08/09/2004 [ write a letter to the editor | ] Theresa Heinz Kerry has been constantly on the front lines of her husband's campaign, and she took a central role in his visit to Flagstaff. The crowd that came to see Kerry was overwhelmingly supportive of his outspoken wife. She was greeted by earsplitting cheers when she stepped onto the stage. "I'm here as much to hear her as her husband!" said Caere Dunn, 53, a hypnotherapist from Prescott. Her fans cited her intelligence, strength, generosity and international life...

August 9, 2004CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOKDoing the Locomotion, and a Ranchera or Two, With Kerrys and EdwardsesBy DAVID M. HALBFINGER LAGSTAFF, Ariz., Aug. 8 - Senator John Edwards pulled his dried-out contact lenses from his eyes. "Eighteen-hour days will do it," he said.A mariachi band had greeted Senator John Kerry's chartered train as it inched into Albuquerque at 11:57 p.m. on Saturday.A few feet away, the candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, was also showing the effects of the grueling cross-country trip. Nevertheless, Mrs. Heinz Kerry started swaying and shaking to the beat. Then, as her husband worked a rope line, carefully scrawling...

AS A would-be Democratic First Lady, Teresa Heinz Kerry nailed her radical colours to the mast with stories of the struggle against South African apartheid while a student in the country. But now contemporaries from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg say her participation in an anti-apartheid protest march, which she used to describe her fearlessness, was an isolated event. John Kerry’s billionaire wife is remembered either as very religious or beautiful, but certainly not as a radical political activist. In April 1959, students and lecturers donned their academic gowns and marched on the Johannesburg City Hall. Banners announced their...

7 p.m. CDT Thursday - cw-3At the capitol building in Jefferson City, Mo., the state where Mark Twain lived, Sen. John F. Kerry jokes that Huck Finn never wanted to grow up - just like some guys his daughters have dated. He laughs and hugs daughter Alex. 10:30 p.m. - The whistlestop tour halts in Sedalia, Mo., where some Bush fans heckle. Kerry tells his supporters to let them chant because they have only three more months to do so. Sen. John Edwards says his children are aboard and to please show some good Missouri manners. Teresa Heinz Kerry tells...

John Kerry's family dumped millions of dollars of foreign holdings as he launched his White House bid, gobbling up Made in the USA stocks in a huge politically savvy international-to-domestic shift. The investments, mostly in the name of Kerry's multimillionaire wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, sold stock in massive overseas players like Heineken, Sony, British Petroleum and Italian Telecom for red, white and blue companies like McDonald's, Dell and Kohls. In all, the Kerrys dumped as much as $16 million worth of international stock and bought between $18 million and $32 million in domestic holdings between 2002 and 2003, records show....

If John Kerry wins the presidency, his household will be the richest ever to occupy the White House. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, controls a vast fortune estimated by a Los Angeles Times study to fall somewhere between $900 million to $3.2 billion. Through a series of entirely legal maneuvers, Kerry is attempting to conceal from American voters the full extent of his wife's wealth and her corporate holdings — and the fact that she apparently manages to pay a remarkably small amount of taxes. Such evidence as one is able to assemble from publicly available information raises deeply disturbing...

July 15, 2004 On the Campaign Trail, Teresa Heinz Kerry's Specialty Is Straight TalkBy JODI WILGOREN OSTON, July 13 - But for the microphone, Teresa Heinz Kerry could have been gossiping with the girlfriends she takes with her on her private jet while campaigning solo across the country. "When you get married when you're older, it's not the same as when you get married when you're a young little thing," Mrs. Heinz Kerry confided to a mostly female crowd of 1,400 here the other day, all wink and nod. "It's better, and it's not the same." A few hours later,...