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SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard Co.'s beleaguered chairwoman Patricia Dunn was in decidedly friendly territory Wednesday night as she made her first public appearance since landing at the center of a corporate investigation gone awry. Dunn was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Bay Area Council, a politically influential business group. "All I will say about the maelstrom is that I look forward eagerly, in the near future, to setting the record straight and going back to leading my life as discreetly as possible," Dunn said during her acceptance speech. "And in the meantime, it wouldn't hurt if the Pope...

Tom McClintock was 14 when he first presented himself to the Ventura County Republican Party, eager to work and, as he told the grown-ups at the time, "to do something important." Friday night in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County Republicans affirmed that McClintock had achieved that objective over the past 35 years. For his work at important things, they inducted him into the county's Republican Hall of Fame. The honor recognized a lifetime of accomplishments that have been achieved by a middle-age man who still has much on his agenda. McClintock was chairman of the county Republican Party in his early...

ATLANTA (AP) - Ted Turner, Henry Aaron and the later former Mayor Maynard Jackson Jr. were among 11 people inducted to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame on Friday. Members of the diverse group stood at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site with a plaque containing their footprints and had their shoes preserved in display cases. "This is the celebration of a few brave and courageous souls, men and women, whose personal sacrifice and commitment to justice was free of malice, greed and self-promotion," Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin said. Xernona Clayton, who created the Walk of Fame,...