BRIEFING\Crow traveling to Bosnia with first lady.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Grammy Award-winning rocker Sheryl Crow will accompany first lady Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Crow is scheduled to perform for United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. troops Sunday and Monday at remote sites in in the city of Tuzla, headquarters for Task Force Eagle, the American peacekeeping mission Noun 1. peacekeeping mission - the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) peacekeeping, peacekeeping operation in Bosnia. Crow will also travel with Clinton to Aviano, Italy, and Baumholder, Germany, where many U.S. and NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. troops are permanently stationed. Crow and her band visited with the first family while on tour last year.Crow said she was in the middle of recording sessions last week for the follow-up to her multiplatinum album "Tuesday Night Music Club" when she received the call from the first lady. In deference to time and airplane space, Crow will forego her usual four-piece backup ensemble in favor of an intimate, acoustic setting for a show organized by the U.S.O. "My first response was without hesitation, 'I'd be honored to go.' It's a chance of a lifetime to do something special for a group of people who are risking their lives for peace," the entertainer said. Close calls in: Glenn Close and Jean Simmons For the musician, see Gene Simmons. Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (born January 31, 1929) is an Oscar-nominated English actress. She was born in Crouch Hill, London, England, and was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003. are set to star in Fox Searchlight searchlight, device, usually swiveled, using a lens and reflecting surface to direct a powerful beam of light of nearly parallel rays. In 1892 such apparatus was used along the English Channel in coastal defense and later, in the South African War, as an aid to Pictures' "Paradise Road," for writer-director Bruce Beresford, sources said Wednesday. The World War II drama, based on historical events, centers on a group of women who were captured by the Japanese sweeping through the Far East, taking Europeans, Australians and Americans prisoner. Instigated by two female British captives, a number of women form a choir as an act of defiance. Close plays Adrienne Pargiter, a strong-willed upper-class Brit who is separated from her husband when she is captured following the invasion of Singapore. |
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