Just three days after a state judge barred his girlfriend from his official residence, Rudolph Giuliani, the Mayor of New York, is moving to strip his wife, Donna Hanover, of her role as the city's "First Lady" and hostess to charity events and galas. One official close to the mayor in City Hall said: "Her status is being changed. She is no longer First Lady." Already, the mayor's office has warned that she will not be present, as she has been for the past seven years, at a cancer fundraising breakfast at the residence, Gracie Mansion, on 13 June."We're confused and dismayed," said a spokesman for the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. "Her energy and involvement have gone way beyond ex officio status. We want Donna there and we expect Donna there."Mr Giuliani filed for divorce from Ms Hanover, an actress and TV personality, last autumn. The couple, who have two children aged 15 and 11, have been locked in an increasingly bitter and public battle ever since.
Ms Hanover still lives in Gracie Mansion, leaving the mayor to sleep in a study.Lawyers for the mayor are appealing the court's ruling that forbids his girlfriend, Judith Nathan, from entering the grounds of Gracie Mansion for the remainder of his time in office. Mr Giuliani's second and final term will end in December.But the house apparently needs a hostess, so the mayor, who is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, has appointed an expert in protocol and etiquette She is Irene Halligan, a grandmother of seven. Meanwhile, there was speculation that Mr Giuliani would begin erasing all the other perks enjoyed by his wife."All these decisions will get made, but I am not going to talk about it," Mr Giuliani said. Earlier this week, he pleaded with New York's tabloids in vain, one can assume to tone down their coverage of his personal problems.. The oral histories of native Americans describe Weatherman Draw as a sacred place where weapons could not be carried and where special sweat ceremonies and "vision quests" were, and still are, held For generations it has been known as a place of peace.
The oral histories of native Americans describe Weatherman Draw as a sacred place where weapons could not be carried and where special sweat ceremonies and "vision quests" were, and still are, held. For generations it has been known as a place of peace. Hidden among the arid sandstone bluffs of scrub and sagebrush are around 90 ancient paintings, drawn by almost a dozen different tribes over the past 1,000 years.But this remote place in southern Montana has also become the backdrop to a fierce early battle over the energy plans of President George Bush, who wants to increase access to more domestic oil and gas supplies to answer the growing energy demands.An oil company owned by the sixth richest man in the US, who is also a major donor to the Republicans, has been given permission to drill a test well that could eventually open the entire 4,268-acre site. Ironically, Philip Anschutz owner of the Anschutz Exploration Corporation is a major collector of art from the American West."We feel it is an outrage," said Howard Boggess, a local historian and member of the Crow tribe, the last native American "owners" of the site, 70 miles from the town of Billings "To us this is a church. In the native American religion we do not build churches anytime our feet touch the earth and we can see the sky, we are in our church. It is a very strong feeling in the valley."Weatherman Draw is named after the pioneering Weatherman family which passed through the area in the late 1800s and scrawled their family name on several places close to the rock art, which was not revealed until 1992.Studies of the art largely paintings of shields and animals have dated some of them back 1,000 years.
