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...women” rather than “woman” often becomes clear when someone who happens to be female ascends to a new position, as occurred with Katie Couric’s recent promotion. Couric was widely lauded for being named the first solo female anchor of an evening news program—not the first woman to anchor an evening news show (in 1976, Barbara Walters became the first female co-anchor), nor the first to do it alone (which happened all the time when male anchors have the night off). Every news source leapt to proclaim...
...dispatch from a base camp. The Tibetans reported that he was dead, according to the dispatch, and the base camp officials informed his family.According to Osborne, Hall refused to keep his gloves or hat on and kept inching towards the edge of the cliff. They had to anchor Hall in the snow to keep him steady.“He later told us that he thought he was on a boat. And he wanted to get off that boat,” Osborne said.Osborne’s team radioed the base camp and waited with Hall for four hours...
...Message: The silver-haired CNN anchor told Yale students to "follow your bliss," but his droll Class Day address (a day before the official commencement, hence the hat) also poked fun at his mother Gloria Vanderbilt, fellow Yalie President Bush and the zeal with which the Ivy hits up ex-students for money...
...Dreamgirls ran for 1,521 performances, closing in Aug. 1985, but its influence spread far beyond the confines of the Majestic Theatre. The show sent the clearest signal yet that blacks could anchor a Broadway hit. Its defiant anthem, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," has been sung countless times over the years in the Amateur Night competitions at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, as well as on American Idol...
...towers destroyed in the attack covered 10 million sq. ft. of space and housed 25,000 employees. In total, 2,749 people died in the attacks--some leaping from the burning upper floors of the towers. The new World Trade Center will cost more than $15 billion and anchor the country's fourth largest business district after midtown Manhattan, the Loop in Chicago and downtown Washington. Construction on the Freedom Tower finally began last month, in a symbolic groundbreaking, after Silverstein came to an agreement with state and city agencies that will divide responsibility for different parts of ground zero...