NEWS LITE : CELEBRITY DIVORCERS NAME THEIR LAWYERS.The Howard/Alison Stern and Geraldo Rivera/C.C. Dyer splits have their legal ducks in line. The radio host and TV star have both thrown in with Stanford Lotwin, who repped Donald Trump or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , whose divorce customers include Linda Lavin, Laurence Fishburne and Patricia Duff. C.C.'s recruited Eleanor Alter, who's billed Mia Farrow farrow see farrowing. and Christie Brinkley. Let the gains begin! Former Police man stirs up cops' ire The former lead singer of the Police won't be welcomed by the cops when he comes to Pennsylvania for a concert this month. The reason? Sting supports Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is on Death Row for the slaying of a Philadelphia police officer. Abu-Jamal's supporters say he didn't get a fair trial. The Fraternal Order of Police The Fraternal Order of Police is a US-based organization of sworn law enforcement officers. It is the world's largest organization of rank and file sworn officers, with over 2100 local lodges and over 325,000 members. Lodge 27, which represents at least 900 retired and active Delaware County police officers, plans to call on officers from around Southeastern Pennsylvania to protest the singer's concert, said lodge president Joseph Fitzgerald. Police hadn't firmed up plans on what form their protest will take. Sting is scheduled to perform in Upper Darby on Nov. 14. AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación honors Ford for stellar The Los Angeles-based American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase will honor all-American actor Harrison Ford next year with its AFI Life Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place on Feb. 17 at the Beverly Hilton and will be broadcast on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. shortly thereafter. Ford will be the 28th recipient of the award, which honors actors and directors for an outstanding career in film. Last year's winner was Dustin Hoffman; previous honorees include Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorcese and James Stewart. Ford is considered one of the top box office stars of today, famous for his roles in such hits as ``Star Wars,'' ``Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and ``Air Force One.'' Johnny Cash goes home from hospital Johnny Cash has been released from a Nashville, Tenn., hospital where he spent two weeks being treated for pneumonia. The 67-year-old country star went home from Baptist Hospital on Sunday night, hospital spokeswoman Jessica Etz said. Cash has Shy-Drager's Syndrome, which can cause blackouts, tremors and muscle stiffness, and makes him more susceptible to contracting pneumonia. He was hospitalized twice last year for pneumonia and nearly died from it last fall. Cash's hits include ``A Boy Named Sue'' and ``I Walk the Line.'' Rugby club bares its team spirit Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. benched its entire women's rugby club Monday, after some team members peeled off their jerseys while posing for a team photo at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Several of the athletes, who were in town for a match against American University, went topless while posing for the photo. It was their luck to do it just as a Washington Post photographer happened by. Later, after defeating American, 19-0, the same group did it again, university officials said. The team's captain, Megan Cowley, told the newspaper her teammates ``wanted to do something crazy. . . . It kind of makes us closer.'' The stunt was noted in Sunday's newspaper and the players received immediate discipline upon their return to school. The club normally practices twice a week, and officials hoped to resolve the matter in a way that was fair to the nonbaring teammates before any practices had to be called off, said J. Michael Dunn, the university's director of recreational sports. Dunn added that the participants he spoke with viewed it at the time as a bonding experience but were chagrined after seeing what it looked like in print. The District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). has no law against women going topless in public. Lampley, Walker marriage on rocks HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy boxing analyst Jim Lampley and San Diego TV news anchor Bree Walker have separated after 10 years of marriage. They met as co-anchors at a Los Angeles station. Though both were wed to others at the time, they provided dishy dish·y adj. dish·i·er, dish·i·est 1. Slang Gossipy; sensational: published a dishy tell-all. 2. Chiefly British Slang Good-looking; attractive. gossip when spotted making out in a Hollywood parking lot. ``We have complicated lives,'' said Walker. ``We're just trying to work it all out . . . figure out who we are, trying to reassess.'' News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Members of the Ohio State women's rugby team put their shirts on after posing bare-breasted. Washington Post (2) Ford |
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