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Pulitzer-winning writer Anna Quindlen visits with Flinn Scholars

Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and novelist Anna Quindlen spent the evening of Nov. 16 with a dozen Flinn Scholars, wrapping up a weeklong residency at Arizona State University as the 2007 Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecturer.

The esq. ledger, international edition

Mary Fan (’97), following law school and an MPhil courtesy of the Gates Cambridge people, is working for a year as an Associate Legal Officer for Judge O-Gon Kwon in the Hague. Judge Kwon is presiding over the “Srebrenica Seven” trial, which involves seven Bosnian Serbs alleged to be responsible for genocidal atrocities committed in […]

Decisions, Decisions

Back in the day, a Dane was having trouble making up his mind. And one thing led to another, and then everybody except Horatio and a rambunctious Norwegian ended up cold and sprawled out on the stage. If our Dane only knew Sean Warnick (’87), maybe all that mousetrap play-within-a-play business could have been avoided. […]

Six degrees of Tony Romo, vol. 2

We swear we’re not going to talk about football forever. In some ways, we think, Don DeLillo had it right. But still, this is fun: Nick T. Spark (’88 ) is producing a new documentary, “Pancho Barnes!“, which features Chuck Yeager, playing himself, unlike in “The Right Stuff,” where he had a bit part opposite […]

Six degrees of Tony Romo

It’s the start of a new dorm-room craze. Can anybody beat this? Kevin Bacon was in “Mystic River” with Marcia Gay Harden, who was in “American Dreamz” with Mandy Moore, who danced around on a Seattle stage during a concert noted by Ticket editor Raina Wagner (’91) of the Seattle Times, which was the employer […]

Laying down the law

Over on the Flinn Foundation website, there’s a pithy item on retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s visit with Scholars on October 27. A grand time was had by all, especially the gang of first-year Flinns who pleaded in such mournful tones with Justice O’Connor that eventually she gave in and took a […]

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor addresses Flinn Scholars

One of the Flinn Scholarship Program's key enrichment components is a public-policy seminar series that allows Scholars to meet some of Arizona's most important leaders. On Oct. 27, current Scholars enjoyed an extended conversation with one of the nation's most important jurists of the past 100 years, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

To do: Get that Fleetwood Mac song out of your head

Well, don’t put it past Justin Kiggins (’02). He’s a pretty versatile guy.

So, you put the E. coli in here… but, uh, don’t eat it!

We’re brave, but not Jeremy Babendure (’97) brave. Now that he’s finished his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences at UC San Deigo, Jeremy is directing the university’s BioBridge program, which brings cutting-edge science to high-school classrooms around San Diego. Which is, to say the least, a courageous thing to do. Of course, from all reports, it’s […]

I left my heart at Haas

We just discovered that the UC Berkeley Business School has its own cafe operated by Jimmy Beans, one of our all-time-favorite spots for breakfast. We’re getting hungry just thinking about it. And that coffee… So, we get it when Ian Larkin (’91) acknowledges missing life in the Bay Area–the incredible food, the spectacular diversity of […]