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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 2001
Page
6
Britain stages its Trooping the Color salute to Queen Elizabeth II with guards in red coats and white horses in London. The rain held off as the open carriage rolled from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade, with the queen under a white umbrella. Though she was born April 21, the Saturday in June tradition prevails for favorable weather.
Margaret Atwood among eight recipients of honorary doctorates from Cambridge University in England. Prince Philip awarded the degrees in a Senate House ceremony. Atwood received doctor of letters after winning the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin. Fellow honorees include Michael Frayn and Sydney Brenner.
Actress Sandra Bullock filed a district court suit in Austin claiming breach of contract after investing 331 225 in 1997 to back Benny Daneshjou's 19 acre Lake Austin subdivision. She seeks her funds back plus profits and fees, alleging altered final land plans and lack of notice to her and her father.
Marcia Gay Harden, Oscar winner for Pollack, joins the Seagull in New York’s Central Park for a four week run starting July 24. She replaces Allison Janney who returns to The West Wing. The Stoppard version also stars Meryl Streep Kevin Kline Christopher Walken John Goodman Natalie Portman and Philip Seymour Hoffman under Mike Nichols with closing date August 19. Harden’s stage credits include Angels in America.
Sen. Jesse Helms, known for conservative stances, attended a U2 show in Washington after being invited by Bono. He described the crowd as energetic and noted Bono’s stamina. Helms, 79, watched with grandchildren from a sky box and met Edge backstage.
Paul Williams selects The Rainbow Connection as his favorite work among classics like Evergreen and Weve Only Just Begun. He praises it as a hopeful song about life mystery and says sobriety and a new productivity period mark his return to writing.
Former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun has accepted a professorship in politics at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. The ex-ambassador to New Zealand will teach government, work with Andrew Young at GoodWorks International, and mentor students in civics.
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