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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 2001
Page
7
Jack O Shaughnessy a Philadelphia carrier demonstrates the hand held scanning device used nationwide. The system logs every delivery aiming for consistency and timeliness but many workers and their union oppose it filing a grievance.
During a royal visit to Varberg Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf was hit by a strawberry cake throw. A 16 year old assailant was wrestled to the ground by bodyguards and detained by police. The motive remains unknown.
A South African Air Force helicopter battled heavy winds to airlift one crew member from the 475 foot Singapore-registered tanker Ihan Tanda that ran aground near Cape Town. The 18 crew members were rescued with no serious injuries reported.
Leslie Thompson, 48, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, wears a humiliating sign outside Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse as punishment for shoplifting. A district court judge offered three hours in the sign or three days in jail. she selected the sign.
A French police officer directs a Mandarom sect member to descend a towering statue of founder Gilbert Bourdin in Castellane. Local authorities plan to dismantle the 100-foot statue near a regional tourist site, Bourdin who called himself the Cosmic Christ died in 1998.
The 14 gowns sold at the 1997 auction to raise 3.26 million for AIDS and cancer charities will be shown at Kensington Palace in London. The collection includes a midnight blue dress worn at a White House gala danced with John Travolta. Maureen Rorech-Dunkel previously owned the gowns and has lent them for display.
Comedian JoAnne Worley, David Allan Coe, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Curtin, Jeff Foxworthy, Perry Bamonte of the Cure, Mark Chesnutt, Rosie Perez, CeCe Peniston, Dolores O Riordan of The Cranberries, Foxy Brown mark birthdays today. The roster covers actors, singers, and musicians from diverse genres.
Oscar winner Geena Davis 44 married Dr Reza Jarrahy 30 in a private Saturday ceremony in Wainscott Long Island. They met over two years ago and will reside in Southern California. Publicist Paul Bloch confirmed the news.
Dennis Greene, ex Sha Na Na singer, begins at the University of Dayton teaching entertainment law this year. He will lecture on intellectual property in the digital economy and mass media and race. Greene is a tenured associate professor at Oregon Law and has been a visiting professor at Ohio State, Seton Hall, and UConn.
Saxophonist Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band paused during a Stone Pony set in Asbury Park New Jersey as a bomb scare halted the show. After officers and bomb-sniffing dogs cleared the venue, about 1,500 fans were allowed back in roughly 30 minutes later.
Katherine Lindberg's Rain and Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing screen at Venice competing for the Golden Lion. Martin Scorsese presents Rain, an Oedipal drama about a family’s self destruction in small town America, while Sprecher follows five strangers in separate stories seeking happiness.
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