However, in 1999 at the height of her success, Dion announced a hiatus from entertainment in order to start a family and spend time with her husband, who had been diagnosed with cancer.

In 1993, Dion announced her feelings for her manager by declaring him " the colour of love " in the dedication section of her third English-language album The Colour of My Love.

After releasing and promoting thirteen albums during the 1990s, Dion stated that she needed to settle down, and announced on her latest album All the Way ... A Decade of Song, that she needed to take a step back from the spotlight and enjoy life.

In early 2002 Dion had announced a three-year, 600-show contract to appear five nights a week in an entertainment extravaganza, A New Day ..., at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

In December 2009, Pollstar announced that Dion was the best-selling solo touring act of the decade and the second-best-selling touring act of the decade, only to the Dave Matthews Band.

Additionally, Dion was named " Artist of the Decade " in her native Canadian province of Quebec, announced by the Montreal-based newspaper, Le Journal de Quebec in 2009 December.

In addition, it was announced in October 2010 that Dion wrote and composed a new song for Canadian singer, Marc Dupré entitled " Entre deux mondes ".

In an interview with People magazine published in February 2010, Dion announced that she will be returning to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for Celine, a three-year residency for seventy shows a year, beginning March 15, 2011.

When Dion announced that he would resign the leadership in May 2009 after the party's poor results, Rae became a candidate in the ensuing Liberal leadership election.

Orchard's nomination fight was ultimately terminated on January 3, 2008 when Dion announced via a news release that Joan Beatty would be appointed as the candidate for that riding, a decision that was the subject of some controversy.

On August 18, 2009, the couple announced that Dion was pregnant with their second child.

On May 30, 2010, Celine Dion's representative announced that Dion was 14 weeks pregnant.

McGuinty was considered a potential candidate to succeed him but announced in November 2008, that he would not seek the leader and instead endorsed Michael Ignatieff, Dion later appointed him as the critic for International Trade.

With the early resignation of Dion in December 2008, and the appointment of Ignatieff as leader of the party, McGuinty was named Environment and Energy critic when Ignatieff announced his shadow cabinet on January 22, 2009.

In a move that startled political observers, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion announced on April 13, 2007, that his party would not contest the seat in order to give May a better chance of winning, a move that marked the first time in decades that the Liberals did not field a full slate of candidates in a general election.

On December 19, 2006, Dion announced that Kennedy would be his special adviser on election readiness and renewal with " intimate involvement in all aspects of election readiness and the platform.

Dion announced his new shadow cabinet in January 2007, and reassigned Dhalla from Health to Social Development.

Layton initially said that he was following the rules of the broadcast consortium, while NDP spokesman Brad Lavigne confirmed that Layton had refused to attend if May was present, noting that May had endorsed Liberal leader Stéphane Dion for prime minister, and arguing that her inclusion would in effect give the Liberals two representatives at the debate.

Layton along with Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe began negotiations to form a coalition that would replace the Conservatives as the government.

Thus, the Pyrrhonian does not assent to the proposition " Dion is in the room " in a dogmatic way as that would purport to describe a non-evident reality which lies beyond the " appearance " phainomenon of Dion being in the room.

The song captured a musical style that Dion would utilize in the future: sweeping, classically influenced ballads with soft instrumentation.

" Dion would perform it again in 2003 during pregame festivities for Super Bowl XXXVII in San Diego.

Dion stated in the article that the album would contain cover songs performed in her Las Vegas show as well as new songs.

Dion grew up listening to the music of Aretha Franklin, Charles Aznavour, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Anne Murray, Barbra Streisand, and the Bee Gees, all of whom she would eventually collaborate with.

In the 1990s, it would seem to be a three-way tie between Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion.

He added, " the notion that the public would accept Stéphane Dion as prime minister, after having resoundingly rejected that possibility a few weeks earlier, was delusional at best [...] Mr. Dion had seemed to accept responsibility for the defeat ( although somewhat reluctantly ), and should have left his post immediately .".

After that in 67, Nero would order a young freedman Sporus to be castrated and then marry him ; according to Dion Cassius, Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Sabina, and Nero even called him by his dead wife ’ s name.

After this situation created some media confusion over which man would lead the party into an election if one were to occur, Martin stepped down as party leader in March, and Graham assumed the full interim leadership until Stéphane Dion was selected as leader in December.

However, the coalition agreement simply made " the leader of the Liberal Party " Prime Minister, and the Liberals later agreed that Stéphane Dion would lead the government on an interim basis until a new Liberal leader was chosen.

Dion would challenge Quebec sovereignist assertions about the legal validity of the 1995 Quebec referendum question in three open letters to Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard and Quebec Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Jacques Brassard.

In the first open letter, Dion challenged three assertions that Bouchard had made: that a unilateral declaration of independence is supported by international law, that a majority of " 50 % plus one " was a sufficient threshold for secession, and that international law would protect the territorial integrity of Quebec following a secession.

" In regard to the simple majority argument, Dion argues that due to the momentous changes to Quebecers ' lives that would result from secession, a simple majority that could disappear in the face of difficulties would be insufficient to ensure the political legitimacy of the sovereignist project.

All the materials he had to work with was a strip board nailed to the floor with a row of tallow candles It wasn ’ t until 1849, when Jefferson returned to New York that he began to earn both critical and financial success though not nearly to the extent he would earn later in life In 1861 due to his failing health and the death of his wife, he left to go to San Francisco and then on to Australia After spending four years in Australia, he left for London and met Dion Boucicault who would revise Rip Van Winkle, turning it from just a play in Jefferson ’ s repertoire to being “ a pronounced success and ran for one hundred and seventy nights .” Opening night on September 5, 1865 at the Adelphi Theatre in London sparked what would become one of the most celebrated characters of the stage in the 19th century.

His transfer to Aston Villa caused some rancour amongst City fans, who suggested a lack of loyalty from the No. 9, he was jeered by Coventry fans when Aston Villa played against Coventry during 1998 / 1999 season but today memories have mellowed and no City fan would deny the enormous contribution that Dion Dublin made to the club's fortunes.

In the December 6, 2008 edition of the Globe and Mail, Manley demanded Liberal leader Stéphane Dion step down so the party can find another leader before Christmas and to " rebuild the Liberal Party, rather than leading a coalition with the NDP.

Dion did, in fact, step down as party leader shortly after Manley's letter was published, however this was a result of internal party pressure and the significance of Manley's letter to this end is debatable.

The next day Rae dropped out of the race and Ignatieff was acclaimed leader when Dion stepped down.

Xris though she had set him up and hunted her down, only to get the shock of his life ; the two eventually reconciled their differences, especially after Mohini was instrumental in foiling a plot to assassinate His Royal Majesty Dion Starfire.

He first shot Vanessa Percy as she ran down the street in terror, then killed two young boys, Leo Wilson and Dion Percy.

The band is stripped down ( comparatively ) to its bare essentials, taking Dion into relatively unfamiliar territories such as country-pop and folk, and she proves herself more than up to the task of delivering top-notch performances every time.

Stéphane Dion stepped down as Liberal leader after a very poor showing in the 2008 federal election, and Dhalla was mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed him.

* Oct. 11, 1926-Three weeks after the last assassination attempt on Al Capone, Hymie Weiss and his bodyguard were gunned down and three bystanders were wounded while the gangsters walked into their gang's clubhouse, the second floor of gangster Dion O ' Banion's old flower shop, on north State Street.