NEWS LITE : PRESIDENT PUTS PRIORITY ON DAUGHTER.Amid warnings of war, President Clinton is to fly to California next week for a five-day stay, including a birthday visit with his daughter, Chelsea, at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . But the travel plans likely would change if Clinton launches airstrikes against Iraq. ``Clearly we will assess that on a day-by-day basis,'' presidential spokesman Mike McCurry said Friday. The president is to visit San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , mostly for fund raising although the White House said there also would be some official events. The trip is built around spending a weekend at Stanford, where Chelsea Clinton Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former US President Bill Clinton and United States Senator Hillary Clinton. She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. is a freshman. But it's also a big birthday for Chelsea - she turns 18 on Friday. Father set to pursue TV `Justice' As a way of getting your own TV show, it seems a particularly brutal and tacky route, even by Hollywood standards. But thanks to the notoriety over the slayings of Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal and Ronald Goldman, Goldman's father, Fred, will get his own TV special next month. The UPN UPN User Principal Name (Microsoft Windows 2000) UPN United Paramount Network UPN Unión del Pueblo Navarro (Navarrese People Union) UPN Umgekehrte Polnische Notation network announced Friday that Goldman will host an hourlong special April 22 called ``Search For Justice With Fred Goldman,'' a pilot for a series. Goldman joins another Simpson-Goldman murder-case alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. who has a gotten TV gig: O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr.. UPN says the show will look at cases around the country where justice has been denied. ``We describe the show as being dedicated to shining the light on the injustices inflicted on citizens by a judicial system gone wrong,'' Goldman says. N.Y. photographer sees stars after Brolin run-in James Brolin reportedly charged into and scuffled with a paparazzo pa·pa·raz·zo n. pl. pa·pa·raz·zi A freelance photographer who doggedly pursues celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to magazines and newspapers. who was trying to take a picture of the actor and his fiancee, Barbra Streisand. Richard Corkery, who works for the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. , was snapping photos of the couple as they emerged Thursday night from a movie theater. Corkery said Brolin charged into him as he attempted to photograph Streisand. ``It was like getting slammed by a train,'' said Corkery, 55, who was treated at a hospital and released. He said he suffered head and neck trauma and plans to press charges against Brolin. Calls to Brolin for comment Friday were not returned. Streisand, 55, and Brolin, 57, were at the theater to see ``Live Flesh,'' and may not have realized that another movie, ``Love and Death on Long Island,'' was having its premiere. The photographer was there to snap Jason Priestly, star of that film. Corkery said that Brolin, star of the TV series ``Pensacola: Wings of Gold,'' laughed as he and Streisand got into a waiting limousine after the scuffle. ``It was a wise-guy, smart-alecky laugh,'' Corkery said. Letterman strikes gold with Olympics Forget figure skating. The best Olympic competition might be Letterman vs. Leno. David Letterman's ``Late Show'' on CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. and Jay Leno's ``Tonight Show'' on 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. finished in a dead heat with 4.5 ratings last week, Nielsen Media Research said Friday. Letterman had the edge with 5.67 million average viewers to Leno's 5.62 million. Letterman, who hadn't beaten Leno in the ratings since August 1995, had been counting on additional viewers tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune to CBS for the Olympics then sticking around for his show. Enough viewers have done this to give him a boost, even though the Winter Olympics in general have been a ratings disappointment for CBS. ``We're thrilled,'' said Rob Burnett, Letterman's executive producer. ``I felt during the Olympics that we had a lot of people coming over to the house and we wanted the show to look nice.'' While Letterman hasn't gone to Nagano, Japan, he sent his mother to make reports. And on Friday, ``Late Show'' erected a tower on Manhattan's West 53rd Street so U.S. Olympic gold medalist Jonny Moseley could attempt a ski jump on fake snow. -- News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports. CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1) Another McGraw-Hill baby book? Country singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, shown in June '97, are expecting a second child, according to McGraw's mother. (2) James Brolin, shown in a February photo with his fiancee, Barbra Streisand. A photographer claims he was assaulted by Brolin. (3) LETTERMAN |
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