Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth is fan of CBS anchor Bob Schieffer



Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth is fan of CBS anchor Bob Schieffer

'Girlie Men': The Unfair Sex?

By Richard Leiby
Tuesday, October 5, 2004; Page C03


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Bob Schieffer the Author, Looking for a Post-Debate Bounce in Sales

• When you're plugging a book, it's nice to have your own national show. CBS anchor Bob Schieffer was checking out Amazon.com ratings of his latest work, "Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast," when he discovered that it was somewhere under one-millionth place. Sunday he mentioned it on "Face the Nation," and the sales ranking soared to the 92,000s.

"I wonder what'll happen once I go on Imus," he excitedly told a book-party crowd that arrived via red carpet Sunday night at Georgetown's trendy Blue Gin. Fans included Dan Rather, Tim Russert and wife Maureen Orth, Sens. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and White House staffer Pam Stevens. When we checked yesterday post-Imus, the book had landed at the No. 239 spot. Imagine what might happen after the third presidential debate Oct. 13, which Schieffer is moderating.

When this story was posted in October 2004, this was on the front page of PCOL:

Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview PCOL sits down for an extended interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez. Read the entire interview from start to finish and we promise you will learn something about the Peace Corps you didn't know before. Plus the debate continues over Safety and Security.

Schwarzenegger praises PC at Convention Governor Schwarzenegger praised the Peace Corps at the Republican National Convention: "We're the America that sends out Peace Corps volunteers to teach village children." Schwarzenegger has previously acknowledged his debt to his father-in-law, Peace Corps Founding Director Sargent Shriver, for teaching him "the joy of public service" and Arnold is encouraging volunteerism by creating California Service Corps and tapping his wife, Maria Shriver, to lead it. Leave your comments and who can come up with the best Current Events Funny?

Peace Corps: One of the Best Faces of America Teresa Heinz Kerry celebrates the Peace Corps Volunteer as one of the best faces America has ever projected in a speech to the Democratic Convention. The National Review disagreed and said that Heinz's celebration of the PCV was "truly offensive." What's your opinion and can you come up with a Political Funny?

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