NEWS LITE : OFFBEAT THEATER ANSWERS NATURE'S CALL.At the opening of San Francisco's restored Geary Theater a few months ago, visitors were delighted that the number of restroom facilities for women had been increased. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Hollywood Reporter, the 93-year-old New Amsterdam New Amsterdam, Dutch settlement at the mouth of the Hudson River and on the southern end of Manhattan island; est. 1624. It was the capital of the colony of New Netherland from 1626 to 1664, when it was captured by the British and renamed New York. theater in Manhattan, which is being restored, was originally built without any women's restrooms at all. ``It was considered rude for women to go to the toilet during an evening at the theater,'' architect Hugh Hardy told the Reporter. Although men were free to use the bathroom, and encouraged to enjoy adjacent smoking lounges, women wore so many layers of clothing - petticoats, corsets, crinolines - that it was impossible for them to answer the call of nature without assistance. They were trained, therefore, to take care of such matters before they left their homes and to wait until they returned to take care of them again. Powell serves up deli wisdom So what has retired Gen. Colin Powell Noun 1. Colin Powell - United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937) Colin luther Powell, Powell been up to lately? Working behind a deli counter, and the pay is good. Powell got $60,000 for a one-hour speech Tuesday night to about 1,000 owners of Schlotzsky's sandwich shops, a chain based in Austin, Texas. The dais at the hotel where he spoke was set up to resemble a Schlotzsky's deli, complete with cans of jalapeno peppers, sacks of bun mix and jars of hot sauce. ``I've never given a speech from behind a deli counter,'' Powell told the group. Powell spoke not on the merits on the merits adj. referring to a judgment, decision or ruling of a court based upon the facts presented in evidence and the law applied to that evidence. A judge decides a case "on the merits" when he/she bases the decision on the fundamental issues and considers of mayo vs. mustard but on his modest upbringing, his 35-year military career and current life as the ``most well-known nonpolitician in America.'' His speech was punctuated with applause and a standing ovation that lasted several minutes. Some cheered `` '96'' - which was meant as encouragement to run for president, not an order number. Singer notes donor need Darius Rucker Darius Rucker (born May 13 1966 in Charleston, South Carolina) is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the band Hootie & the Blowfish. He is a graduate of Middleton High School (class of 1984) in Charleston. His high School no longer exists. It integrated with St. , Hootie and the Blowfish A secret key cryptography method that uses a variable length key from 32 to 448 bits long. It uses the block cipher method, which breaks the text into 64-bit blocks before encrypting them. lead singer, says he believes more African-Americans and members of other minority groups should become volunteer bone marrow donors. That's because the proportion of donors of minority background is very small, and it is therefore harder to find matches for people, such as leukemia patients, who need donors. ``I first learned about registering to be a marrow donor through a good friend's son, whose life was saved because he found a matching donor,'' Rucker said. He plans to sign up for the National Marrow Donor Program The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operates the federally funded registry of volunteer hematopoietic cell donors in the United States. These potential donors, numbering more than 6. today. Kaczynski says thanks to jailers Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski “Unabomber” redirects here. For other uses, see Unabomber (disambiguation). Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), known as the Unabomber, is an American terrorist and social critic who carried out a campaign of bombings and mail bombings that killed recently transferred from Montana to California, wrote a letter thanking his jailers for their ``kindness and consideration,'' a Helena, Mont., newspaper said Wednesday. The Independent Record said Kaczynski wrote to the editor of the newspaper before he was moved from Helena to Sacramento on Sunday. ``I am now leaving for Sacramento,'' he said in a neatly printed, one-paragraph letter carried by the newspaper. ``I have been very well treated at the Lewis and Clark County Clark County is the name of twelve counties in the United States of America:
Wedding marches on without judge Both the bride and the groom were left standing at the altar when the judge was a no-show. Judge Thomas Campbell forgot he was supposed to marry Bill Harrison and Susanna Grammatus on Saturday in Mecca, Ohio. It took three hours to find another judge. Harrison said he called Campbell twice in an hour Saturday, then every 15 minutes for two hours, then every 10 minutes. No clergy members would do the ceremony because the couple had not received the required counseling. Municipal Judge Thomas Gysegem finally agreed to handle the ceremony after he cleaned up from mowing the lawn. Gysegem arrived just in time for the backyard wedding. The maid of honor had to be at work in less than an hour, the Harrisons' three young sons were grass-stained from playing and many guests had to get to graduation and birthday parties. ``We had the ceremony and right afterwards everyone made a line'' for their cars, Harrison said. Five people had time to stay for the cake. ``In the morning I was a nervous wreck,'' the bride recalled. ``I was worried about the weather, what if it rains. I never thought, `What if the judge doesn't show up?' '' CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) Colin Powell: Hold the mayo? (2) Darius Rucker : Pledges support (3 -- 4) And a g'day to you, too A 2-year-old koala koala (kōä`lə), arboreal marsupial, or pouched mammal, Phascolarctos cinereus, native to Australia. Although it is sometimes called koala bear, or Australian bear, and is somewhat bearlike in appearance, it is not related to true , right, peers through thick foliage at Mayra Rojas, 6, below, who joins her parents, Chuon and Leonor, in admiring one of the newest members of the Los Angeles Zoo The Los Angeles Zoo founded in 1966, is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Zoo, located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, is home to 1,200 animals from around the world. . Officials announced the debut of two female Queensland koala bears Wednesday, after the pair was released from a monthlong quarantine following their arrival from the San Francisco Zoo The San Francisco Zoo, (previously Fleishhacker Zoo) is a zoo in San Francisco, California housing more than 250 different animal species. It is located in the southwestern corner of the city, between the Great Highway and Lake Merced. last month. Hans Gutknecht/Daily News |
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