NEWS LITE : ARIANNA H. CHARMING BELTWAY.Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, who will cover the political conventions with Al Franken  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. for Comedy Central, is conquering the capital, says W, while the guy she married, Michael Huffington, is quietly running a film production company. The mister, who is Episcopalian, told W he's also planning to convert to Greek Orthodoxy, his wife's religion, and would like to become a priest. ``Not while I'm married to Arianna, of course,'' he said, ``but when I'm 80.'' This remark is somewhat confusing, because married men can become Greek Orthodox Adj. 1. Greek Orthodox - of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Orthodox faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he priests. Perhaps Huffington's early retirement from politics will be followed by an early retirement from the marriage. Not so, an early retirement from the movie business. He told W he is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a 15-year-old girl he can cast in the title role of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine. . Speaking of Joan . . . Not your ordinary evening ensemble It's exactly her size, and its chinks and dents correspond to her war wounds. Experts have their doubts, but a Paris antiques dealer thinks the suit of armor Noun 1. suit of armor - armor that protects the wearer's whole body body armor, body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armour armet - a medieval helmet with a visor and a neck guard in his shop belonged to Joan of Arc. ``I couldn't be more sure it's authentic if Joan of Arc herself were standing in it,'' Pierre de Souzy said Monday, posing next to the ornate helmeted suit of armor. De Souzy purchased the suit from an elderly French woman whose family bought it from a British sea merchant in 1760. He said he began wondering about its origins when his 14-year-old daughter slipped it on just for fun. ``Oh,'' his wife joked, ``you could call her Joan of Arc!'' A metallurgist at the National Center for Scientific Research dated it to the 15th century and said it seems to have been designed for a woman, not a man. What's more, it stands just under 5 feet tall - just like France's patron saint patron saint Saint to whose protection and intercession a person, society, church, place, profession, or activity is dedicated. The choice is usually made on the basis of some real or presumed relationship (e.g., St. . Perhaps even more important, flaws on the helmet and breastplate breastplate 1. for use with a saddle, a strap attached to the girth at its lowest point, which then passes between the forelimbs, passes upwards and divides to pass on either side of the neck and to meet at the withers after attaching to the front edge of the saddle. correspond to wounds Joan is known to have suffered in battle before the English burned her at the stake in 1431. But experts have their doubts the armor with its spiked knuckles, winged plates and missile-like toes belonged to Joan of Arc. Curators at Paris' Army Museum said Joan's helmet probably had a visor, and the maker would have stamped a name or a crest somewhere on the suit - neither of which this one has. ``There are going to be countless irregularities that make it both challenging and scary to research,'' said Kent Russell, director of the Higgins Armory Museum Higgins Armory Museum, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a public, non-profit museum specializing in the history of arms and armor. John Woodman Higgins built a unique steel and glass structure to house his collection of armor, one of the largest such collections in the in Worcester, Mass., site of one of the world's largest armor collections. Legend has it that King Charles King Charles can refer to:
Group will boldly go . . . to Alabama In the ``Trek'' cosmos, this is the mighty momma of all conventions. William Shatner <noinclude></noinclude> William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing Captain James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the starship USS Enterprise , Leonard Nimoy and Kate Mulgrew Katherine Kiernan Maria "Kate" Mulgrew[1][2] (born April 29, 1955) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, most famous for her roles as Mary Ryan on Ryan's Hope and Captain Kathryn Janeway on . (that's Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and Capt. Janeway, if you're from some other part of the universe) will be participants in ``Star Trek 30: One Weekend on Earth.'' The Sept. 7-8 celebration in Huntsville, Ala., is timed for the 30th anniversary of the original TV show's premiere. ``It's Woodstock for Trekkies,'' said Neil Newman, a vice president for Paramount Pictures' Viacom division. A deluxe weekend package, including a chance to play spaceman and visit with ex-Apollo astronaut Alan Shepard, will go for $300. We can't help but wonder how big a deal he'll be in comparison to the fictional-universe space travelers. ETs land at the White House When the White House called about space aliens, the USA Network considered it a galactic emergency. Last week, Dick Ross, the network's vice president of operations, got a call from a White House aide saying the first family was hankering for some Sci-Fi Channel programming, but the Clintons were troubled to discover that Sci-Fi is not carried by the White House cable operator. Worse, the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., isn't even wired for cBable. But the White House crisis was solved with some impeccable timing. The company that services the White House, District Cablevision, ostensibly os·ten·si·ble adj. Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity. had already made plans to add the Sci-Fi Channel next Monday. The Camp David situation was fairly simple, too. Because it was the president asking, Ross granted permission for the folks in the big place on Pennsylvania Avenue to descramble de·scram·ble tr.v. de·scram·bled, de·scram·bling, de·scram·bles To unscramble (a coded message or signal, for example). the satellite signal so that Bill, Hillary and Chelsea can view via their backyard dish. Dental duets doable The latest issue of Fitness magazine says that it's all right for one half of a couple to clean its teeth in front of the other half. It's not all right, however, for one half of a couple to clean its ears in front of the other half. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Kissy, kissy Richard Simmons reacts as Jane Fo nda applies a smooch at a book show. Associated Press (2) William Shatner: Kirk's enterprise (3) Joan of Arc's armor? C'est possible. Associated Press |
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