NEWS LITE : CLINTON AIDE WANTS TO BE A BIG KID.Top White House aide George Stephanopoulos George Robert Stephanopoulos (born February 10, 1961) is an American broadcaster and political adviser. He is currently ABC News's Chief Washington Correspondent and the host of ABC's Sunday morning news show This Week. says he's ready ``to grow up'' and move on to other professional challenges if President Clinton wins a second term. Stephanopoulos, among the group of youthful ``War Room'' strategists who helped get Clinton elected in 1992, said his five years of working for the president are starting to wear him down. ``In some ways, it's just physical,'' the 35-year-old told The New Yorker magazine. ``I went to a doctor who told me that maybe an analogy is to a commodities trader, who also can only do it till about this age. He just says, basically, that your nerves get burned out.'' Stephanopoulos, one of Clinton's closest advisers, said: ``You can only be useful at a job like this for a certain period of time.'' ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what I'll do. I've had a great run, a great ride, but it feels like I'm done,'' he said. ``It's not that I'm above it, but I can't do it anymore. I just have to grow up. ``Not to be too mystical or New Age about it, but I feel as if I was propelled into this, and now I have to get off the roller coaster and drive my own car.'' With Clinton holding a double-digit lead in national polls over his Republican rival Bob Dole, speculation has started about who among the president's men and women might stay for a second term. Shields, Agassi weigh serving up large family Brooke Shields Brooke Christa Camille Shields[1] (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. Biography Career Shields' career as a model began in the late 1960s as an infant, and she continued as a successful child model throughout the 1970s. wants three children, while fiance Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. is hoping to field a team. ``I'd like to be married for a little while before we have kids,'' Shields says in the Saturday TV Guide. Once she's ready for children, the question will be: How many? ``I think men always go into the higher numbers because they're not the ones going through the actual process and they just think of a brood,'' said Shields, star of the new NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. sitcom, ``Suddenly Susan Suddenly Susan is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC from 1996 to 2000. Suddenly Susan's headlining star was Brooke Shields, who got the show after a guest appearance on Friends in the episode "The One After the Superbowl". .'' ``It's their mentality,'' she said. `` `Let's have more. Let's have a team ' They think in terms of teams. I think three would be great.'' Mum is the word on when the TV star will marry the tennis pro. ``We won't be a perpetually engaged couple, that's for sure,'' said Shields, 31, adding she hopes for a paparazzi-free wedding. ``Hopefully, I'll do this just once. . . . Hopefully, it won't be destroyed by the press,'' she said. ``Just the one day that you want to not give away to anybody else.'' Skater keeps his cool in Vegas Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear. medal skater Scott Hamilton has this thing about the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In 1985, he was shot from a cannon across the fountains adorning the front of the Sunset Strip resort. The stunt was part of the TV show ``Circus of the Stars Circus of the Stars is an annual television special, broadcast by the CBS network in the United States, in which celebrities performed circus-type acts. There were 19 shows in total, the first being broadcast in 1977 and the last in 1994. .'' Friday night found Hamilton skating on a giant ice rink built over the fountains, clowning for a TV special as a gold chain-bedecked Las Vegas lounge lizard, drawing a standing ovation from a crowd of 3,000. The ice rink, half the size of a football field, was crafted last week, with temperatures hovering in the mid-90s. ``Too Hot to Skate,'' scheduled to air on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. in January, features skating stars Oksana Baiul, Michelle Kwan, Viktor Petrenko, Katarina Witt, Rosalynn Sumners, Kurt Browning, Todd Eldredge, Nicole Bobek and Tara Lipinski. Racing camel fetches record $390,000 She's a real beaut beaut n. Slang Something outstanding of its kind: "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!" Fiorello H. La Guardia. , with plush upholstery and great mileage. The ride may be bumpy, but boy, can she run. That's why a United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. man paid a record $390,000 to own her - the fastest racing camel in Oman. Bint Hamloul, or ``Daughter of Hamloul,'' was sold to the unidentified purchaser by Ahmed Raai Al-Dariy, the Al Shabeeba newspaper reported Sunday. The price topped the previous known record of $260,000, the Arabic-language paper said. Average racing camels commonly sell for about $8,000, while thoroughbreds fetch no less than 10 times that price. Omani breeders are said to have the fastest camels. Camel racing is popular in many Persian Gulf nations, with races held every weekend. While betting is prohibited, owners of top camels can win prizes including cars, yachts and tens of thousands of dollars. Top racing camels are treated luxuriously, being fed diets of honey, nuts, eggs and lard, as well as barley and clover. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Fanning flames of hope Recipients of the 1996Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill Medals, from left, Francis Reese, Lea Rabin, widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Jordan's Queen Nor and Dr. Dennis J. Murray Dennis J. Murray is the current (1979- ) President of Marist College. During Murray's tenure as President, enrollment has more than doubled, 16 new academic programs have been established, several new academic centers and student residences have been added, and the property , light candles after they were presented their awards Sunday in Hyde Park, N.Y. Reese was honored for her work for the environment, Rabin and Queen Nor for their peace work in the Middle East and Murray for accomplishments in higher education. Associated Press (2) Scott Hamilton: Palatial pa·la·tial adj. 1. Of or suitable for a palace: palatial furnishings. 2. Of the nature of a palace, as in spaciousness or ornateness: a palatial yacht. performer |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion