Bonds, whose godfather, Willie Mays, was near him, thanked his teammates, his family, the Nationals and the fans.
Mr. Ashley said there was an "absence of evidence" of any physical mistreatment of Annie, whose godfather was the prosecution's first witness.
They saw him often with the Astros, their spring training neighbors in Kissimmee, Fla. Johnson also had an influential fan in Chipper Jones, whose godfather, Pete Dunn, was Johnson's coach at Stetson University.
Bonds, whose father, Bobby, was an All-Star and whose godfather, Willie Mays, is a baseball legend, has three games left in the regular season, at home against the Dodgers.
Deng and Murdoch had two daughters – Grace, 11, whose godfather is Tony Blair, and Chloe, nine, who, like Grace, was baptised on the banks of the river Jordan, at the spot where Jesus was said to have undergone the same ceremony.
Rahul Dubey, a young American Sikh from Oak Creek who is active in interfaith advocacy – and whose godfather was one of the victims of the Oak Creek attack – said politicians are partially to blame, particularly when they fan the flames of Islamophobia that ultimately translate into attacks on Muslims, Sikhs and others who are perceived to be outsiders solely based on their religion or appearance.
Damian, whose father is Steve Bing, the property developer, film producer and billionaire cad, and whose godfathers include Elton John, Hugh Grant and Denis Leary, is eight, and clearly the apple of his mother's eye.
The party was for a friend of Mr. Dixon's, PAUL KLEBNIKOV, whose book, "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia," was just published by Harcourt.
It's the story of a woman whose own godfather, the director Josh Logan, advised her to have surgery to achieve more facial definition during the filming of "Tall Story".
The recipient of the telephone call was Abu Dahdah, also known as Imad Eddin Barakat Yarbas, the leader of the gang of eight and according to Judge Garzon the head of a "terrorist cell" which formed part of the al-Qaeda network, whose ultimate godfather is Osama bin Laden.
But it is just the kind of work that will determine whether the intellectual branch of the Broadway musical tradition, whose reigning godfathers are Bernstein and Mr. Sondheim, stands a chance against the prevailing taste for songbooks, revues, camp and movie adaptations.
