Transitions.CAME OUT THOMAS ROBERTS, a CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. Headline News anchor, while speaking on a panel at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) is an American professional association dedicated to unbiased coverage of gay/lesbian issues in the media. It is based in Washington, D.C. annual conference in Miami, September 8. The following week he was reassigned to a field reporter position, but the network and Roberts said that had nothing to do with his remarks at the conference. CNN said it was canceling the late-afternoon broadcast Roberts coanchored because of budgetary considerations. DIED ANN RICHARDS, 73, Texas's governor from 1991 to 1995, of esophageal cancer Esophageal Cancer Definition Esophageal cancer is a malignancy that develops in tissues of the hollow, muscular canal (esophagus) along which food and liquid travel from the throat to the stomach. , September 13, in Austin. The feisty, old-fashioned liberal appointed more openly gay people to state offices than any prior Texas governor. RETIRED MARTINA NAVRATILOVA, 49, from professional tennis after winning the U.S. Open mixed-doubles championship, September 9, 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. . Although she had retired from singles competition in 1994, Navratilova resumed playing doubles in 2000 and ultimately won 178 doubles crowns (in addition to her 167 singles victories). HIRED JEFFREY NIELSEN, a Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. professor who was let go in June for criticizing the Mormon Church's opposition to marriage equality in a newspaper op-ed, at two Utah colleges. It was reported September 18. |
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