Arianna Huffington serves on the Board of Directors of the "Points of Light Foundation," alongside ex-President George Bush, Neil Bush (Chair, Interlink), Andrew Card (VP, General Motors), and others. Sponsors of the foundation are a Who's Who of American political/economic giants and the "military-industrialist complex," including Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush, major military contractors, big oil companies, auto manufacturers, and major banks and insurance companies None of her bios ever mention her ex-husband Michael Huffington, their Texas oil-money fortune, or her ranking by Forbes as one of the world's richest women. ================================== http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/boardofdir.html Arianna Huffington serves on the Board of Directors of the "Points of Light Foundation," alongside ex-President George Bush (Honorary Chair), Neil Bush (Chair, Interlink), Andrew Card (VP, General Motors), Phillip J. Carroll (Chair/CEO, Fluor Corp), J. Richard Munro (Chair, Genentech), Edward Gardner (Pres, Industrial Solvents Corp), Joseph Diamond (Merrill Lynch), Shirlene Anderson (BellSouth Corp), Mitt Romney (Pres/CEO, Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002), and others. http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/sponsors.html Sponsors of the foundation are a Who's Who of American political/economic giants and the "military-industrialist complex," including: George H. W. Bush (the Governor of Texas and Republican Presidential Candidate); Military Contractors - Fluor Daniel, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell; Big Oil Companies - ARCO, Conoco, Mobil, Shell; Auto Manufacturers - Chrysler, Ford, Hitachi; Banking & Credit Giants - American Express, Chase Manhattan, Fannie Mae, NationsBank, Pitney Bowes; Insurance Companies - Allstate, Farmers Insurance Group, Utilities Conglomerates - AT&T, Bell Atlantic, GE, MCI; Electronics Giants - Compaq, EDS, Samsung; Food & Textile Giants - Anheuser-Busch, JCPenney, Kellogg, Levi Strauss, Pillsbury, Procter & Gamble, McDonald's, Sears, Target; and others, including - the American Cancer Society, Disneyland, Knights of Columbus, UPS, the Walt Disney Company. http://ariannaonline.com/biography.html None of Arianna Huffington's bios ever mention her ex-husband Michael Huffington, his inheritance of hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas oil money, the more than $35 million that s/he spent to run for Congress in 1992 and Senate in 1994, her divorce settlement of more than $10 million in lieu of alimony, the $10,000 per month she currently receives in child support and will continue to receive for another ten years, nor her ranking by Forbes as one of the world's richest women. ================================= The www trail: Start at the Shadow Conventions homepage: http://www.shadowconvention.com/ <click on html 'About the Conveners -- Who We Are' http://www.shadowconventions.com/conveners.htm SHADOW Arianna Huffington is the author of eight books and a nationally-recognized syndicated columnist who has been published widely on all three of the shadow convention issues. http://www.ariannaonline.com/ Bio: Arianna Huffington <click on html 'Bio: Arianna Huffington'> http://ariannaonline.com/biography.html Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of eight books. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was sixteen and graduated from Cambridge University with a M.A. in Economics. At twenty-one she became President of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. Her first book, The Female Woman, on the changing roles of women, was published in 1974 by Random House and translated into eleven languages. In 1978 she published After Reason, a book on political leadership and the intersection of politics and culture. [clip] Her seventh book, Greetings From the Lincoln Bedroom, a book of political satire, was published in 1998 by Crown. [clip] (NOTE: None of Arianna Huffington's bios ever mention her ex-husband Michael Huffington, his inheritance of hundreds of millions of dollars in Texas oil money, the more than $35 million that s/he spent to run for Congress in 1992 and Senate in 1994, her divorce settlement of more than $10 million in lieu of alimony, the $10,000 per month she currently receives in child support and will continue to receive for another ten years, nor her ranking by Forbes as one of the world's richest women.) During Campaign '96, Arianna teamed up with Al Franken to provide political coverage for Comedy Central during the Republican and Democratic conventions, as well as on election night. She and Franken also appeared in a point-counterpoint segment, Strange Bedfellows, for Politically Incorrect. She has made guest appearances on numerous other shows, including Larry King, Oprah, Nightline, Inside Politics, Charlie Rose, Crossfire, Rivera Live, Hardball, Firing Line, Good Morning America, the Today Show, 48 Hours and Roseanne. She serves on several boards that promote community solutions to social problems, including the Points of Light Foundation, where she chairs the Communications Committee and works on the Foundation's families volunteering project; the board of the Do Something organization that challenges young people to get involved in bringing about social change; and the board of A Place Called Home that works with at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. She also serves on the advisory board of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. Arianna Huffington lives in Los Angeles and Washington D.C. with her two daughters, Christina and Isabella. ARIANNA ONLINE 1158 26th Street, P.O. Box 428 Santa Monica, CA 90403 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <go back to http://www.shadowconventions.com/conveners.htm and click on html 'http://www.ariannaonline.com/'> <scroll down and click on html 'Community'> http://ariannaonline.com/community/index.html The Points Of Light Foundation <Family Matters>, The Points of Light Foundation's key initiative seeks to engage families in year-round, community-oriented volunteer projects. It is working to generate a national service movement by creating linkages between families, neighborhoods, business and not-for-profit organizations on the national and local levels. Family Matters connects families of all sizes and definitions with their communities, strengthening everyone. <click on the html 'Family Matters'> http://www.pointsoflight.org/ <click on the html 'About Us'> http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/aboutus.html <click on the html 'Foundation's Board of Directors'> http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/boardofdir.html And there's the complete list of the Board of Directors! <click your back button to> http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/aboutus.html <click on the html 'Our Sponsors'> http://www.pointsoflight.org/aboutus/sponsors.html And there's a partial list of the corporate sponsors! ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." 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