“What is there to do with two coaches who refuse to give reporters the sound bites they are looking for?” asks Benjamin Hoffman of the NYT of the Harbaugh brothers who coached opposing teams at the Superbowl.
“DJ Steve Porter decided to turn the obfuscation into art with one of his latest remixes,” said Hoffman.
Fodbold. Fuβball. Pêl-droed. Sokker. Zúqiú. Soccer.
Soccer is an international pastime and Luma Mufleh has used it as a stepping-stone to foster harmony and order in the lives of Clarkston, Georgia’s refugee children; children who have witnessed the worst of our modern age.
Born in Amman, Jordan, Mufleh moved to Atlanta a year and a half after graduating from Smith College. One day, as she drove down a street in Clarkston, she happened upon a group of young boys playing soccer in the street. “They played without some of the most basic equipment–but they played for the sheer enjoyment of the game–something that reminded [her] of home,” she said.
Mufleh decided to organize a soccer team for the boys and distributed fliers amongst the apartment buildings where she knew refugee families lived. The fliers were printed in Arabic, English, French, and Vietnamese. Continue reading
After 36 teams had been eliminated, Emma Freeman ’05 and her teammates on The Gordon Hirabayashi Memorial Team argued in the final round of Harvard Law School’s Ames Moot Court competition.
The final round of the competition, in which Freeman’s team was pitted against the The William J. Stuntz Memorial Team, was presided over by retired Supreme Court Justice The Honorable David Souter, The Honorable Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, and The Honorable Mark Wolf of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.
The trio awarded Freeman with the distinction of “best oralist” as well as honoring her team with the award for best brief. In this year’s competition the teams argued the constitutionality of a statute that would require, “all state and local government entities in Ames to purchase only green technologies manufactured in the United States using domestically sourced materials.”
“I’m really thankful to be a part of the songwriting community here in Nashville,” said Ashley Gearing ’09 in an interview at the BMI Country Awards.
According to their website, BMI, “collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.” The company represents more than 550,000 songwriters, composers, and publishers.
Last week Susan Cummings ’62 talked with the Daily Hampshire Gazette about her memoir, “Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman: Reclaiming My Moxie After Cancer.”
In the interview Cummings commented that she could not find any literature on life post-treatment and that was when she began to write.
“I hope people see that they can get their confidence and joie de vivre back,” said Cummings in response to what she hoped people would gain from reading her memoir.
“When something bad happens in life, you have to trust in life that good things happen as well as bad,” she said. “Grace happens.”
Cummings, who has recently relocated from New York City to Bernardston, Mass., says she wrote her book, “in the spirit of helping other women find their own way through cancer – not to offer pat solutions or didactic advice.”
Photo courtesy of Jerrey Roberts, gazettenet.com.
