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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 […]

We want to join the army and catch a case of the bird flu

Not that anybody in the hospital is ever lucky, exactly… it nevertheless sounds like Christy (Buck) Oberg‘s (’93) patients at the VA in Tucson are in really good hands: I did my residency in internal medicine and then did a chief resident year. Since then, I’ve been working full time at the VA hospital here. […]

But it’s a dry heat…

Robin Mead (’97) has been teaching economics at the Dubai American Academy. We asked her if Dubai’s as crazy as the photo essay in this month’s Harper’s makes it look, and she said, Um, yeah. It’s as hot as Phoenix (but with less rain), skyscrapers are going up round the clock, and they’re putting the […]

Polly wants a cracker. And a Tickle-Me-Elmo doll.

Not to be too uncaring in a period of mourning, but Dr. Pepperberg, watch your back! The new parrot authority in the neighborhood is none other than Becky Fox (’96). She wrapped up a Ph.D. at UC Davis, where she studied things like parrots’ neophobia and whether well-matched parrot parents do a better job of […]