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HOOVER RESEARCH FELLOW BILL
WHALEN, a Republican strategist
who advised Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was considering running
for governor in 2001, told the Boston Globe Aug. 10 that the
bodybuilder turned politician should keep pressing his
rags-to-riches tale to voters. He "should not be ashamed to show
his wealth," Whalen said. "You cannot be dumb and be that wealthy."
And in an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun Aug. 15, Whalen
wrote that Schwarzenegger, although new to political campaigns,
"just may be an exceptionally clever politician." Over the next two
months, he wrote, "Schwarzenegger will sound like a Republican on
taxes and a Democrat on after-school programs. He'll invoke the
conservative economist [Hoover Senior Research Fellow]
MILTON FRIEDMAN as a policy idol, while
stumping with the actor Rob Lowe, a lifelong Democrat who's
promised to publicly campaign for his GOP buddy." Such positions
may be unconventional in one person, according to Whalen, but in a
socially progressive state Republicans must go to "clever lengths"
to be competitive at the ballot box.
MEANWHILE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES reported Aug. 15 that one of the 135 candidates running for governor Oct. 7 will be NATHAN WHITECLOUD WALTON, an incoming student at the Graduate School of Business. The 25-year-old Princeton grad said, "That people are seriously considering Arnold shows you how little they think of the system we have. I actually studied politics at one of the premier institutions in the country, which gives me more qualifications than somebody who was Mr. Olympia." THE PALO ALTO WEEKLY reported Aug. 13
on the health benefits of physical activity as people age.
According to WILLIAM
HASKELL, professor
emeritus of medicine, individuals who stay active can reduce their
risk of heart attack and stroke by 20 to 40 percent. Regular
exercise and a normal body weight can reduce the risk of diabetes
by as much as 50 percent, he added. JOYCE
HANNA, 68, associate
director of Stanford's Health Improvement Program and a former
nationally ranked marathon runner, attributes the increase of older
women athletes in part to the introduction of Title IX of the 1972
Educational Amendments, which guaranteed equal athletic and
educational opportunities for girls and boys. Young female athletes
also may inspire their older counterparts to become active for the
first time. "I think the realization that we are going to be living
longer too is a good motivation to keep our minds and our bodies
alive," Hanna said.
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Stanford Report, August 20, 2003