NEWS LITE : SINATRA MAY GET ROAD IN VEGAS.A county official wants to honor Frank Sinatra by naming an access road to Las Vegas Strip hotels The following is a list of hotels on Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. Name Rooms Opened / Notes Stratosphere 2000 Las Vegas Blvd. South 2,444 April 30, 1996 Sahara 2535 Las Vegas Blvd. after the legendary crooner. Clark County Commissioner Lorraine Hunt plans to ask her fellow commissioners next week to name the proposed frontage road Frank Sinatra Drive. ``It's a fine tribute for a man who helped really put Las Vegas on the map,'' Hunt said, recalling how as a teen-ager and aspiring singer she and a girlfriend would hang out backstage while Sinatra and his band rehearsed. Las Vegas was still a dusty gambling town, Hunt said, when Sinatra turned the Sands' Copa Room into the playroom and watering hole for the fabled Rat Pack, his group of entertainment pals that included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Joey Bishop. ``Frank Sinatra brought a new level of sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. - the 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 thing, the tuxedos, the upscale Copacabana feel,'' Hunt said. The resort access road will run parallel to Interstate 15 along the Strip with exit-ramp signs for Frank Sinatra Drive, Hunt said. Lush landscaping is planned for the finished road. The road is not the only tribute to Sinatra in a town where his singing career was revived in the early 1950s and where his exploits are legendary. On Friday, celebrities and golfers played in a charity tournament honoring the late singer, and tonight a black-tie tribute on the Strip will feature celebrities singing their favorite Sinatra songs. Giggly Muppet grabs 1st feature-film deal ``Sesame Street's'' little red monster, Elmo, is about to hit it big in Hollywood. The Muppet with the orange nose and bug eyes is slated to star in his first feature film, titled ``Elmo in Grouchland.'' The movie will feature the high-pitched character's adventures in a faraway garbage land full of grouchy grouch·y adj. grouch·i·er, grouch·i·est Tending to complain or grumble; peevish or grumpy. grouch  i·ly adv. , trash-loving creatures, including humans Vanessa Williams as Grouchland's Queen of Trash and Mandy Patinkin as a greedy, rude thief. Elmo will be joined by his television friends Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character on the television program Sesame Street. Oscar has a green body (during the 1969–1970 season he was orange), has no nose, and lives in a garbage can. , Bert and Ernie Bert and Ernie are two Muppets on the long-running PBS children's television show Sesame Street. The two appear together in numerous skits, forming a comic duo that is one of the centerpieces of the program. , and other ``Sesame Street'' characters. Jim Henson Pictures and the Children's Television Workshop Children's Television Workshop: see Cooney, Joan Ganz. are making the film for Columbia Pictures. Filming is set to begin Monday in Wilmington, N.C. It is not the famed character's first time outside ``Sesame Street'' land. A talking, laughing, plush-toy version of Elmo called Tickle Me Elmo Tickle Me Elmo is a childrens' toy from Tyco, introduced in the United States in 1996, becoming that year's top fad. Bright red in color and based on Elmo, a Muppet character from Sesame Street, when squeezed, Elmo would chortle. hit stores in 1996 and became a consumer hit, prompting buying frenzies at toy stores nationwide. Dutch prince weds college sweetheart As the Netherlands public watched on the tube, Queen Beatrix's nephew married his sweetheart - a commoner - Friday in that nation's first royal wedding in 23 years. Prince Maurits, 30, and Marilene van den Broek, 27, waved to dozens of news photographers as they stepped out of their convertible for a civil ceremony at the Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn. A church ceremony is set for today. Lady Mari, daughter of European Commissioner Hans van den Broek Hans van den Broek (born 11 December 1936 in Paris) is a leading Dutch political figure. , met the prince five years ago at Groningen University. Jamaican girl spells heroism Suddenly, Jamaica has a hero: a 12-year-old girl from Kingston with a winsome win·some adj. Charming, often in a childlike or naive way. [Middle English winsum, from Old English wynsum : from wynn, joy; see wen-1 smile and steely determination whose David vs. Goliath victory at the National Spelling Bee has enthralled en·thrall tr.v. en·thralled, en·thrall·ing, en·thralls 1. To hold spellbound; captivate: The magic show enthralled the audience. 2. To enslave. Jamaicans both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Jody-Anne Maxwell, with precise diction flavored by her lilting accent, spelled ``chiaroscurist'' before a packed hall in Washington on Thursday, becoming the Bee's first foreign champion in its 71 years. She defeated 248 other finalists, including a handful from the Bahamas and Mexico, the only other foreign nations represented. At that moment, driving his delivery van in Queens, William Barnes was listening on his radio and could not believe what he was hearing - an island girl had come to the capital of this vast and intimidating land and beaten America's best. ``I just feel overwhelmed,'' Barnes said Friday. ``My little country came through.'' Watching an account of the Bee on the evening news, Troy Armstrong, a 13-year-old sixth-grader from Queens, was stunned both at Jody-Anne's victory and his mother's sudden belting out of the Jamaican national anthem. She hugged him and said, ``I hope you grow up to be just like that.'' Troy, one of about 148,000 people of Jamaican ancestry who live in New York City, primarily in Brooklyn and Queens, said, ``It makes me feel proud to be Jamaican for once.'' Although Jamaican immigrants have a median income higher than the city average, pop culture, Troy and others said, has exaggerated the group's problems with gangs and drugs. ``They make it seem like the only jobs Jamaicans can get is selling drugs and being in gangs,'' he said. And Una Clarke, a city councilwoman from Brooklyn who was born and reared in Jamaica, said she was working with the Jamaican Embassy to try to bring Jody-Anne to New York to inspire Jamaican students who she said often struggle in school here because of cultural conflicts and differences in American and Jamaican dialects. ``This flies in the face of all the negative stereotypes about Caribbean students,'' Clarke said. Jody-Anne, a polite, confident girl who wants to be a corporate lawyer and attends one of the top public schools in Jamaica This is an incomplete list of schools in Jamaica.
Among Jamaican immigrants, island schools have a reputation for stronger discipline - including corporal punishment in some cases - and greater academic rigor rigor /rig·or/ (rig´er) [L.] chill; rigidity. rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. than New York City's. A few have even sent their children back to the island to be educated, though neither the city's Board of Education nor Jamaica's Ministry of Education keeps statistics. Student revelry Revelry Revenge (See VENGEANCE.) Reward (See PRIZE.) Bacchanalia festival in honor of Bacchus, god of wine. [Rom. Religion: NCE, 203] Boar’s Head Tavern scene of Falstaff’s carousals. [Br. Lit. punished Beware! Falling mortarboards! About 80 of the 92 seniors at Seton Catholic High School Seton Catholic High School is a Catholic high school in Chandler, Arizona. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. It currently enrolls 540 students. The Seton name comes from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. in Chandler, Ariz., ignored a warning from Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien Thomas J. O’Brien refers to:
They will now pay for it, or they won't get their diplomas. O'Brien had warned them not to toss their caps inside because of the danger the sharp-cornered boards might injure someone. Those who defied his instructions - or at least spotted on parents' videotapes of the ceremony - have to do four hours of work at school to get their diplomas. On Wednesday, 10 students were pulling weeds off the school's football field, several toiling shirtless in the 90-plus-degree sunshine. ``I'm not going to cry about it - it's only four hours,'' said Lisa Wangler wan·gle v. wan·gled, wan·gling, wan·gles Informal v.tr. 1. To make, achieve, or get by contrivance: wangled a job for which she had no training. 2. , 17. Honest, officer - it's my grandmother. Michael Anthony Horne insisted the powdery pow·der·y adj. 1. Composed of or similar to powder. 2. Dusted or covered with or as if with powder. 3. Easily made into powder; friable. Adj. 1. substance police found in a plastic bag in his pickup was the ashes of his cremated grandmother. But when police tested the contents, it tested positive for methamphetamine. Horne was hauled away to jail for a month. Unable to make bail, he lost his job, his pickup, his apartment and his military reserve status. Subsequent tests confirmed that the substance was indeed human remains, something Horne had insisted since his arrest last July. ``It's in the police report that he told them that,'' said his attorney, Luis Vera. On Thursday, Horne sued the city for unspecified damages. Unfortunately, repeated testing has destroyed most of the evidence. ``The sad thing is, most of his grandmother's remains are gone now,'' Vera said. ``He can't get that back.'' CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Jody-Anne Maxwell, 12, of Jamaica smiles after beating NewJersey's Prem Murthy Trivedi, right, in the National Spelling Bee. Ron Edmonds/Associated Press |
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