In January 2004 he publicly stated he was opposed to women singing on state television, and in April Associated Press reporter Todd Pitman reported that Manawi said that any Muslim caught drinking in the Irish Pub in Kabul would be punished.

By Todd Pitman, The Associated Press, 2010.

During the 2008 baseball season, Todd was a regular contributor to Comcast Sports Net Chicago commenting on the Chicago Cubs baseball season.

The town is surrounded by the eastern Berkshires, with the western part of town being dominated by Todd Mountain and the Mohawk Trail State Forest.

Wheaton alumni include evangelist Billy Graham ( 1943 ), religious leader Bill Gothard ( 1957 ), former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert ( 1964 ), presidential speechwriter Michael Gerson ( 1986 ), Wake Forest University President Nathan O. Hatch ( 1968 ), film director Wes Craven ( 1963 ) and September 11 hero of United Flight 93 Todd Beamer ( 1991 ).

Josh Todd grew up in Anaheim Hills, California and later moved to Lake Forest, California.

Sweeney Todd first appeared in a story titled The String of Pearls: A Romance.

Neil Gaiman, in a promotional " penny dreadful ", identified a number of earlier texts that feed into the Todd story, some dating back to at least the late 17th century.

The original story of Sweeney Todd was quite possibly based on an older urban legend, originally based on dubious pie-fillings.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1926 ), the first silent film version of the story, starring G. A.

*" The Strange Case of the Demon Barber " ( 8 January 1946 ), an adaptation of the Sweeney Todd story featured in an episode of the radio drama The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

This version of the story was the first to give Todd a more sympathetic motive: he is a wrongfully imprisoned barber who returns to London after 15 years in an Australian penal colony under the new name Sweeney Todd, only to find that the judge responsible for his imprisonment has raped his young wife and driven her to suicide, and adopted his daughter.

Todd McCarthy of Variety described it as " emotionally powerful and stylistically sure-handed " and that the film ’ s characters and social commentary were brought into the story with an " almost breathtaking deliberation ".

This sentiment has been echoed by writer Todd McEwen, who called it " gorgeous ," and wrote a short story " Cary Grant's Suit " which recounts the film's plot from the viewpoint of the suit.

Todd McFarlane was hired to design original monsters and regions for the game, as well as help shape the story.

" He also claimed that the story was confirmed by Mary Todd Lincoln, and partially confirmed by Private Secretary John Hay ( who thought it dated from Lincoln's nomination, not his election ).

Todd continued to act on television, including roles in Virtual Murder, Silent Witness, and in the Doctor Who story Kinda in 1982.

On an episode of " Ghosthunters International " that aired on July 21, 2010, it is mentioned that the Jarman murders at the Ostrich Inn were the inspiration for the story of " Sweeney Todd ".

On October 23, 2008, Drudge published an unconfirmed exclusive story regarding Ashley Todd, the 20-year-old employee of the College Republican National Committee ( CRNC ) and John McCain volunteer who had allegedly been attacked by a black male for having a McCain sticker on her car in Pittsburgh.

The story was confirmed to be a hoax perpetrated by Todd and, according to Talking Points Memo, spread to reporters by McCain's Pennsylvania Communications Director.

Drudge then printed a retraction of the story, including links to the news stories detailing that the attack had been a hoax and that Ashley Todd had performed a similar ' attack ' on herself while volunteering in a local Ron Paul grassroots group.

Athena helps build the Argo, Roman moulded terracotta plaque, first century AD Jason and the Argonauts is a 1963 Columbia Pictures fantasy feature film starring Todd Armstrong as the titular mythical Greek hero in a story about his quest for the Golden Fleece.

Todd McFarlane re imagined the story in the " Twisted Land of Oz " in which none of the characters are innocent.

Produced on a $ 12 million budget, Barbershop, with a story by Mark Brown and a screenplay by Brown, Marshall Todd, and Don D. Scott, was filmed in Chicago during the winter of 2001.

* In the film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, as well as in the short story and the musical, the titular character, Sweeney Todd, kills his customers with a razor blade.

In a twist of the story, at the end, having assassinated the Judge and the Beadle, Todd is killed by Toby, a boy he kept with Mrs. Lovett, with his own razor blade, while Mrs. Lovett, who bakes the dead customers into meat pies, is thrown into her own oven to bake to death by Todd.

The original New York Times review of the 1994 Broadway production called the musical an " unalloyed love story " but also Sondheim's " most somber " since Sweeney Todd.

Gibbons ' first DC work was on the Green Lantern Corps story in Green Lantern # 161 ( February 1983 ), with writer Todd Klein, as well as the concurrently released " Creeper " two-part backup story in Flash # 318-319.

Mary Todd Lincoln kept house, often with the help of a relative or hired servant girl.

In June 2007 a new publishing company, headed by Edwin Voskamp and Eric Todd, was formed with the express purpose of bringing Amber DRPG back into print.

* Robert B. Todd, 1976, Alexander of Aphrodisias on Stoic Physics: A Study of the " De Mixtione " with Preliminary Essays, Text, Translation and Commentary.

In the top of the 10th inning, with a runner on second base, Baltimore pitcher Todd Williams was signaled to intentionally walk the Marlins ' Miguel Cabrera.

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

Writer / director Todd Solondz, a favorite cult director, had his first major success with the black comedy Welcome to the Dollhouse ( 1995 ), a brutally-honest look at the persecution of a young junior high student by her classmates.

The sketch featured Cheers co-star George Wendt, a Chicago native, as host of a radio talk-show ( similar in tone to WGN radio's " The Sportswriters "), with co-panelists Carl Wollarski ( Robert Smigel ), Pat Arnold ( Mike Myers ) and Todd O ' Connor ( Chris Farley ).

The sketch usually showed the panelists drinking lots of beer and eating lots of Polish sausage, and often featured Todd getting so agitated about what was happening with the Bears that he suffered a heart attack, but quickly recovered ( through self-administered CPR ).

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Thomas had an appointment at a clam house in New Jersey with Todd on 4 November.

Additionally, Guillermo Mota, who was acquired by Florida in 2004 along with Paul Lo Duca and Juan Encarnacion and was expected to be their closer, was inconsistent, and the Marlins gave the closer job to veteran Todd Jones, whom they signed in the offseason.

For this reason, the term is often applied to films and plays of a stylised nature with heightened acting, melodrama and theatrical effects such as Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Quills, and the Hammer Horror films that went before them.

Brainstormed by John Romero, Id Software held a weekend session titled " The Id Summer Seminar " in the summer of 1991 with prospective buyers including Scott Miller, George Broussard, Ken Rogoway, Jim Norwood and Todd Replogle.

* Trusting the People: The Dole-Kemp Plan to Free the Economy and Create a Better America, ( ISBN 0-694-51804-2 audiobook, ASIN B000OEV5RE HarperCollins, 1996 ) coauthored with Bob Dole, narrated by Christine Todd Whitman

In 2006 he ventured into Internet businesses, including MyStore. com with Todd Meagher and Bebo founder Michael Birch.

In 2009 Lennon created a new partnership with Todd Meagher and Micheal Birch called theRevolution, LLC.

He continues to appear in live stage shows, including Barbra Streisand's memorable birthday party for Stephen Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl, in which he appeared with Angela Lansbury, performing selections from Sweeney Todd.

She is romantically involved with Todd, and they have a baby together ( Lindsay ).

She and Todd are obsessed with transforming their bodies into perfect " machines " by going to the gym every day and taking protein pills and drinks.

A number of influential MMORPG designers began as MUD developers and / or players ( such as Raph Koster, Brad McQuaid, Matt Firor, and Brian Green ) or were involved with early MUDs ( like Mark Jacobs and J. Todd Coleman ).

Their first release, " Buick 59 ," ( based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R & B hit " Rocket 69 ") was backed with a ballad called

Todd Gitlin in The Whole World Is Watching in describing the movement's influences stated, " The New Left, again, refused the self-discipline of explicit programmatic statement until too late-until, that is, the Marxist-Leninist sects filled the vacuum with dogmas, with clarity on the cheap.

These elements concorded suggestively with those made independently by another astronomer named David Peck Todd, suggesting to many that they might be valid.

Todd Hollenshead, chief executive of id Software at the time of the original article stated: " The trend you're seeing with new games is, to some extent, a reflection of what's going in the culture ... For instance, you've now got games with terrorists and counterterrorists.