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...turn on the television lately without hearing news of LIZA MINNELLI. Depending on one's point of view, this may or may not be cause for celebration. Days after her March wedding, Minnelli, 56, and her curiously well-preserved new husband David Gest, 48, thwarted a mugging on their honeymoon in London. Last week she opened her new show at the Royal Albert Hall, impressing critics by belting out standards and dancing energetically. But on the same day, she was named in a lawsuit brought by her stepmother Lee Anderson Minnelli, 94, who was married to Liza's father Vincente...
When Birnbaum and Gest assumed the club team’s captaincy last spring, they say their first priority was to overcome the problem of court time, and they arranged a meeting with Jeremy L. Gibson, the athletic department’s assistant director of athletics for operations...
Spies also informed Birnbaum and Gest that the club team could no longer use Gordon during the fall of 2001, because renovations originally scheduled for the summer had not yet been completed...
Frustrated with their inability to schedule court time, Birnbaum and Gest say they decided to take their case to University President Lawrence H. Summers in late October. After an office hours visit, Summers instructed Birnbaum and Gest to send him an e-mail message explaining the problem...
Birnbaum and Gest say that even though they failed to secure court time at the Murr over the winter, their relationship with the athletic department remained cordial until February, when the club team returned to Gordon after its renovation to find the courts worse than ever...