NEWS LITE : MARRIED WITH KIDS STAR OPTS FOR VALLEY.Katey Sagal Katey Sagal (born Catherine Louise Sagal on January 19, 1954)[1] is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, singer, and writer, best known for her roles in Futurama, 8 Simple Rules, and Married... with Children. of TV's ``Married . . . With Children'' and her husband, musician Jack White, sold their three-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot Los Feliz house for about $1.5 million. It was nice - maid's quarters, pool, gardens, library, sleeping terrace, covered patio - but the parents of two wanted a more kid-friendly place and decided on digs in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . A Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. Halloween joke has impressed campus officials. Credit for the pumpkin atop the tower has gone unclaimed. Forgiving slant taken on prank The Halloween mystery at Cornell University this year is not just who put a 60-pound pumpkin atop the school's 173-foot bell tower, but how. While officials at the Ivy League Ivy League Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. are not condoning the prank, neither are they too upset. ``We admire the ingenuity of whoever put it there,'' Cornell spokeswoman Linda Grace-Kobas said Monday in Ithaca, N.Y. The pumpkin appeared on the steeple of the 125-year-old bell tower Oct. 8. The prankster had speared the pumpkin on a pole, then attached the pole to the steeple's lightning rod lightning rod, a rod made of materials, especially metals, that are good conductors of electricity, which is mounted on top of a building or other structure and attached to the ground by a cable. . Some suggested that a helicopter was used or that an alien spaceship was conducting target practice. More likely, Grace-Kobas said, someone climbed the stairs that lead to the tower's chimes and went out through a small service hatch that opens near the bottom of the sharply slanted roof. But someone still would have had to scale a steep 20 feet to the top of the steeple. ``We have a number of rock-climbing courses and clubs here, so there are plenty of people here capable of something like this,'' said Grace-Kobas. The mystery remains: Were they ingenious, remarkably brave or out of their gourd gourd (gôrd, g  rd), common name for some members of the Cucurbitaceae, a family of plants whose range includes all tropical and subtropical areas and extends into the temperate zones. ? University officials decided that rather than risking someone's safety or going to great expense to remove the pumpkin, they would let it rot away. Pavarotti praised for Bosnia efforts Luciano Pavarotti Noun 1. Luciano Pavarotti - Italian tenor (born in 1935) Pavarotti was honored Monday for helping raise $8 million for the orphans of Bosnia. The tenor received a special achievement trophy at the Gramophone Awards in London. ``I try to take care of people,'' a tearful Pavarotti said in accepting the award. ``This award is something very, very special. I am really, really very proud.'' Sir Paul McCartney Noun 1. Paul McCartney - English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942) McCartney, Sir James Paul McCartney , one of the presenters, said he will help Pavarotti open a music school in the war-ravaged Bosnian city of Mostar in December. ``Luciano is a great singer and talent and I would be very happy to collaborate,'' he said. Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE (Russian: Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович received the lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution to classical music. McCartney, whose symphonic poem symphonic poem, type of orchestral composition created by Liszt, also called tone poem. Discarding classical principles of form, it begins with a poetic or other literary inspiration. ``Standing Stone'' had its premiere recently, presented the young artist of the year award to Germany's Isabelle Faust for her debut recording of Bartok's violin sonatas. The Gramophone Awards are sponsored by Gramophone magazine, a leading classical music magazine. Mondavi says wine, dine, enjoy life Robert Mondavi's wine dynasty crosses three continents. It also appears on his dinner table every night. ``If you think of good wine, you have a good life,'' Mondavi said. ``Eat and drink in moderation, and have a wonderful time. My wife and I have a bottle every evening.'' He attributed his longevity - 84 years - to his daily indulgence. Mondavi was honored Sunday as the ``Winemaker of the Decade'' by the Smith & Wollensky steak house steak house or steak·house n. A restaurant that specializes in beefsteak dishes. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , soon to open a branch in Florida's South Beach. Travolta: Ich bin ein Scientologist John Travolta told a singing and chanting rally of Scientologists in Berlin on Monday that ``there never is an excuse for a government discriminating against its citizens because they hold a particular religion.'' The demonstration was in protest against Germany's tough stance against the group. The movie star, addressing the crowd on a giant video screen, said: ``Scientology is our religion. It has helped us a lot, and it has helped so many others around the world.'' Among the protesters were singer Isaac Hayes and actress Anne Archer, the wife in the movie ``Fatal Attraction.'' Organizers, who looked to get 10,000 marchers, said about 6,500 showed. Cops said there were 3,000. Germany doesn't recognize Scientology as a religion but sees it as a business that exploits its members. CAPTION(S): PHOTO (1) A Cornell University Halloween joke has impressed campus o fficials. (2) Credit for the pumpkin atop the tower has gone unclaimed. (3) Travolta |
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