NEWS LITE : DINNER TO REUNITE JONES, PRESIDENT.Paula Jones
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin and President Clinton are expected Saturday to be in the same room together for the first time since . . . well, Jan. 17. (That's when Clinton gave his deposition in her case against him.) This weekend's event is the annual black-tie White House Correspondents Association dinner at D.C.'s Capital Hilton. Jones will be the guest of the conservative mag Insight, at a table figured to be well to the rear of the hotel room. The chief executive will be on the dais overlooking the crowd of 2,600 munchers. Laurence McQuillan, association president, said, ``Priority seating goes to news organizations that cover the White House on a daily basis. And certainly the table for Insight magazine will be further back, based on that priority.'' `Taxi' star decries plans for building Judd Hirsch Judd Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning actor, known for playing the character Alex Reiger on the acclaimed television comedy series Taxi. and other cast members of TV's ``Taxi'' are upset over plans to raze raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. the Greenwich Village Greenwich Village (grĕn`ĭch), residential district of lower Manhattan, New York City, extending S from 14th St. to Houston St. and W from Washington Square to the Hudson River. garage that was home to the fictional Sunshine Cab Co. ``They should put a plaque on the building,'' said Hirsch, who played Alex Rieger on the show, which ran from 1978 to 1983. ``They should maybe embed a taxi in the building.'' Real estate developers plan to tear down to demolish violently; to pull or pluck down. - Shak. See also: Tear the building later this month and erect luxury condominiums. For the past nine years the building was used as a parking garage, but a cab company operated there previously. ``Taxi'' was taped in California, but the outside of the building on the corner of Charles and Hudson streets was used for exterior shots. Lauer here `Today,' but gone tomorrow NBC's ``Today'' host Matt Lauer Matthew Todd Lauer (December 30, 1957)[1] is an American television personality, best known as a co-host of NBC's The Today Show (since 1994)[1] after being a news anchor in New York [2] and his overworked travel agent know where he's going next week. Just about no one else does. Television's top-rated morning show is sending Lauer on a one-week road trip starting Monday. He will report from a different location outside the 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. each day. Three of those appearances will mark the first American First American may refer to:
Co-host Katie Couric and other ``Today'' on-air staffers won't know until each morning's show where Lauer is going to be, executive producer Jeff Zucker said. Windows glitch A temporary or random hardware malfunction. It is possible that a bug in a program may cause the hardware to appear as if it had a glitch in it and vice versa. At times it can be extremely difficult to determine whether a problem lies within the hardware or the software. See glitch attack. opens up Gates to discomfort In the Silicon Valley version of being caught in public with your fly open, Bill Gates was showing off Windows 98 at a major computer show Monday when the system crashed. ``I guess we still have some bugs to work out,'' said the Microsoft chairman, the featured speaker at the opening of the Comdex Spring Computer Show in Chicago. ``That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet.'' The new operating system was originally scheduled to be released late last year but has been postponed twice and is now set to come out in June. During his speech, Gates said that the new Windows will make it easier for individuals and businesses to use their computers. But the demo wasn't exactly user-friendly. The system collapsed when a Microsoft employee tried to plug in a scanner with his boss standing right there. News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1) Low move-in A man checks out a rental sign moved by a painter from a nearby building in Wenatchee, Wash. Don Seabrook/The Wenatchee World (2) CLINTON (3) HIRSCH (4) Bill Gates: User unfriendly |
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