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Exhibits Spared From Damage in Smithsonian Fire
By not in system - AOL NewsAn outbuilding of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History caught fire this morning, sending a large plume of smoke over the National Mall and snarling rush-hour traffic in downtown Washington, D.C., but apparently sparing adjacent museum exhibits from any damage, The Washington Post reported. Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas said the museum is expected to be open today, according to radio station WTOP . The fire was caused by welding work being done on the roof of the building, which houses heating and air-conditioning equipment, a firefighter who was on the scene told WTOP. A ...
Saturday is Rally Day for Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
By Peter W. Fulham - Politics DailyWASHINGTON – Rob Silverstein, a freshman at Georgetown University, believes Saturday's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on the National Mall will be a "Woodstock-like event for a lot of people." "This is an event that I'm going to remember for the rest of my life," he predicts. Perhaps the sponsors are thinking the same thing. A rally in front of the U.S. Capitol, with national visibility, is new territory for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the popular TV comedians who concocted the event. According to the Facebook page for the rally, more than 200,000 people have signed up to ...
Larry King Gives a Porta-Potty to Jon Stewart for Mall Rally
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Oct. 21) -- Larry King has gifted a portable toilet to Comedy Central host Jon Stewart for his upcoming Rally to Restore Sanity on the National Mall in Washington. Stewart received the unusual gift on CNN's "Larry King Live" Wednesday night, after King noted that there had been some question about whether the organizers of the Oct. 30 Comedy Central event -- meant to poke fun at conservative pundit Glenn Beck's recent Rally to Restore Honor -- would be able to obtain enough portable toilets for its anticipated thousands of participants. Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that ...
Stewart, Colbert Rallies Looking for a Few Good Porta-Potties
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 7) -- The Marine Corps Marathon has a lock on the portable toilets on the National Mall. Literally. Organizers of the 26.2-mile event have made it clear that they won't share their portable facilities with participants from Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert rallies. Indeed, the Marines plan to put padlocks on their 800 Porta-Potties later this month, as both marathon runners and political naysayers descend on the Mall over Halloween weekend. "We've paid for 'em. They're already there for our race, our event. We've taken care of our event, and our event is very separate ...
Meryl Streep on the Battle for a National Women's History Museum
By Bonnie Erbé - Politics DailyThe scene: D.C.'s posh Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The event: A fundraiser for the National Women's History Museum, which exists in virtual form only, for now, but has been the dream of a number of ambitious, connected Washington, D.C. women for 14 years. Tuesday night, actress Meryl Streep, the museum's official spokesperson, wowed the audience with a sometimes winsome, sometimes angry, and other times hysterically funny speech about why it's taking so long for the women in Congress (all of whom support the museum) to convince the men in Congress to sign on. The museum's backers' sole desire ...
Jon Stewart Goes on 'Oprah' as Rally Picks Up Steam
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- A little more than a month before his "Rally to Restore Sanity" will be held in Washington, D.C., Jon Stewart appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to promote a new book and poke more fun at Glenn Beck. Stewart's latest interview with Winfrey was officially set up to hawk copies of "Earth: A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race," the comedian's new book, but when Oprah flashed a picture of Beck and asked for Stewart's instant reaction, "The Daily Show" host couldn't help but chide the man whose "Restoring Honor" march provided much of the inspiration for his own upcoming rally. ...
Park Service: 'No Guarantee' Rally With Stewart and Colbert Will Happen
By not in system - AOL NewsComedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have invited tens of thousands of people to the Washington, D.C., on Oct. 30 for their "Rally to Restore Sanity" on the National Mall. ...
Will 'Rally to Restore Sanity' Draw More People Than 'Restoring Honor'?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 20) -- Call it a tale of two rallies. In response to Fox News host Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, which took place on Aug. 28, Comedy Central host Jon Stewart announced plans for his own Washington, D.C., gathering. Called the "Rally to Restore Sanity," Stewart's event seeks to poke fun at what "The Daily Show" emcee considers Beck's bombastic grandstanding, while also attempting to return the American political discourse to a more reasoned, less vitriolic volume. Here's how Stewart describes what kind of people he hopes will attend his march on Oct. 30. We're looking for ...
Meryl Streep to Raise Money for Embattled National Women's History Museum
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyActress Meryl Streep -- who has played such strong females as culinary pioneer Julia Child and nuclear plant whistleblower Karen Silkwood -- will headline a Sept. 21 benefit in Washington for the National Museum of Women's History. Although no taxpayer money will be spent on the museum that organizers hope to build near the Smithsonian-dominated National Mall, its congressional champions have spent 12 years vainly trying to pass a bill allowing museum officials to buy federal land for the project. Two earlier Washington sites -- the Post Office Pavilion and the Smithsonian Arts and Industries ...
Why Is It So Hard to Estimate Crowd Size?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 30) -- Size matters. At least it does when it comes to reporting crowd estimates. Take Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, held Saturday on the Lincoln Memorial -- the anniversary and site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream Speech." Besides being an important illustration of the scope of Beck's popularity, the number of attendees also poses a test for mainstream news operations. Will they be able to stand by their figures, or be forced to retract them? (As has been the case countless times when crowd-inflation or miscounting has been exposed.) Plus, at least in this ...
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